Rapidweather
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Posted: Jan. 25 2004,02:15 |
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Most older computers have a serial port, and in MS-DOS, you can use interlnk / intersvr. You need to get a MS-DOS book to see how, it's complicated. It's possible to copy the files over from one computer to the other using a laplink cable. I did that, with Windows 95 installer. Then, I installed Windows 95 from the hard drive. Only had 8 mb ram, but things went very fast. No floppy, No cdrom at all. Your processor is very good, at 120hz, and also lots of HDD space.
Another solution is one that I used with very old Macintosh machines. Take the HDD out, put it in a better machine, do your install, then put the HDD back in the older machine. I still do that with Linux, particularly with something like Debian, which is hard to set up. Once I get a nice partition going, with all the stuff I like, I just copy it to another HDD using DriveCopy, which can expand the copied partition to a new, larger partition. Linux's dd command also works, then you use
ext2resize to fit it in. Very complicated, but it works. Then take the HDD out, and and move it to it's permanent location. You often need to get into the /etc/fstab file with a linux repair floppy like tomsrtbt or bootE linux. Just adjust the fstab file to reflect the locations of the "/" and swap partitions.
Right now, I am experimenting with "knoppix toram" at boot time, and also,
"knoppix tohd=/dev/hda1"
I gotta reboot, and try out "knoppix fromhd" to see if that works after I put the DSL cd files on /dev/hda1. I tried to get it to go onto the USB drive, but it wouldn't do it on my box.
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