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Cid

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Posted: April 20 2004,03:34

hi, i'm new to damn small and i was wondering if it is possible to install it with floppies? i have an old machine that has no cd drive and want to get linux on it. so if there is a way to install over a network or with floppies i'd appreciate some help...thanks.

edard

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Posted: April 20 2004,04:10

Cid, I copied the files from the CD to a small partition on my Windows machine then used DOS Interlnk/Intersvr to copy them to a 70MB partition on my 'floppy only" laptop with a parallel cable. Then made a boot floppy and did the dsl-hdinstall to the larger partition on the laptop. After the install I used mkswap and swapon to turn that 70MB partition into swapspace. Maybe not ideal but it worked for me. Hope this helps.

Tobbe
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Posted: April 21 2004,06:04

Hi,

I am in about the same situation and really need some help. I have an old Thinkpad 365x, without CD, and I have already installed a slakware version "Delilinux" and is connected to internet. I have w-get downloaded the DSL-iso to the same partition as Delilinux and I hope to be able to install DSL to the other partition using a floppy. I tried the options under F2 in the DSL usb-floppy but with no luck catching the DSL-iso.

So, I would be grreateful for any advice, possible to understand for a real newbie

Tobbe

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Posted: April 30 2004,15:59

Hey guys
I have sucessfully gotten DSL installed on a very old laptop with a floppy only, the method I am using works every time...I have put it on 5 times (tried dual boot with win95 and a bunch of other stuff as well) and the walkthru I posted in the HOWTO works every time

HOWTO HD install on a machine with only a floppy

Hope this helps

Brian
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