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Posted: Sep. 22 2005,05:09

1. download the iso.

2. use winrar or 7zip to unpack it to the root dir of your hdd. google to find these if you need to

3. use Rawwrite for Windows to make the boot floppy

4. use the fromhd=hda1 cheatcode to make DSL boot from the unpacked iso image.

You now have what we call a "Poorman's Install" (I call it a Ghetto Frugal Install)

-J.P.

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Posted: Sep. 23 2005,12:01

Ok, I'm going to give that a bash over this weekend (lucky for me it's a long one).

Thank you for the advice.

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Posted: Sep. 28 2005,00:18

Goober - take heart, it can be done, because I did it. Unfortunately, problems with the board last night (my time) meant that I lost the instructions that I posted on what exactly I did, but I'll write it out later.

I'm not running it with Windows, but it is running, though I need to adjust the things that start with the window manager I think and make a bigger swap partition and see if that helps.

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Posted: Sep. 30 2005,14:27

So happy I found this thread...

I want to install DSL on a Jurassic Samsung lappy I salvaged from my attic to give to a young member of the family (32Kb RAM, 4 Gb HDD, broken CDROM and floppy, no modem and no NIC).

I managed to install a PCMCIA modem and a Freecom PCMCIA CD RW under Windows 98 (currently installed).

My question: how can I install it, given that I have nothing to boot the lappy from, other than the HDD? Loadlin perhaps? Or I just have to rip the HDD out, put it in a modern laptop and install from there?

Thanks.

PS Atticware... hilarious and very appropriate name, sarah

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Posted: Sep. 30 2005,15:52

Quote (Guest @ Sep. 30 2005,10:27)

Boot using the PCMCIA cdrom, then install frugal to the HD

It will install lilo bootloader and it will then boot from the HD next time

Brian
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