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Posted: June 26 2005,13:06

Hello,

I have an old IBM Thinkpad 755CX laptop with no CD Drive, just a floppy drive. This laptop has a 547MB hard drive (buying a new one off ebay, 12GB soon). There is no OS on this hard drive yet.

I've been searching for a few days now on how to install DSL or a Linux distro on it. (I would prefer to go for DSL as this think only has 547MB Hard drive space). Now, I have seen THIS

It talks about using TOMSRTBT to try and get my network card working. MY network card is MP3510, will this work with it?

Right, now how do I put TOMSRTBT on to a floppy disk and make it boot up. The file size of the .zip is 2.4MB, yet a floppy is 1.44MB - so how does this work?

I might be able to follow the rest of the instructions, not sure but if I need hlep - can you guys help me? Thanks.

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Posted: June 26 2005,13:42

Tomsrtbt uses a 1722k super-formatted floppy.

If you have windows 9x, you can grab the DOS zip file, unpack it somewhere and reboot into MS-DOS mode and make the floppy that way.

For winNT, I'd suggest unpacking it somewhere and getting a DOS bootdisk from bootdisk.com and using that to install it.

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Posted: June 26 2005,16:57

I don't have a WinX machine, all XP. Is there no way I can do it through XP?

Also with this - will I be able to install any distro via network install then?

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Posted: June 27 2005,01:19

Go to bootdisk.com.

Grab one of the Win9x install floppy images.

Put a floppy into the drive.

Double-click the image file, and follow the instructions.

Leave it in and reboot into DOS.

cd to wherever you put the tomsrtbt file.

run the install script.

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Also with this - will I be able to install any distro via network install then?

I doubt it.

DSL's network fetch script was designed specifically for use with tomsrtbt, because it is the most widely used floppy linux out there.

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They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. That's nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.

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