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Posted: Oct. 17 2006,08:45 QUOTE
First of all I love this software .. I use it on a Toshiba 4025.  But I have to get a Dell Latitude 433 and Compaq 4120 running and they only have floppy drives and hard drives, No USB.  Any advice on how to do this with DSL are greatly appreciated.

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Posted: Oct. 17 2006,14:32 QUOTE
The simplest may be to take out the disk, transfer it to the toshiba, install DSL and finally put the disk back. With the DSL autoconfiguration it should work fine.
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Posted: Oct. 17 2006,17:44 QUOTE
Thank you very much for your information.  I'll try the installation that way and I'll let you know how it works out.

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Posted: Oct. 23 2006,21:36 QUOTE
super skaos help!!! I tried to do what you told me.  I swapped out drives in the toshiba and installed from the toshiba took out the drive and put it in the compaq.   It wouldn't boot but I know the stuffs there cuz.  I know its something simple .. any ideas what im doing wrong.
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Posted: Oct. 31 2006,12:29 QUOTE
I think DSL comes with both lilo and grub boot loaders, maybe the other works. Also many old compaqs comes with a bios setup partition and if you deleted this it may not work (not very likely though, it should boot without it).
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