Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 22:24 schrieb Douglas Tutty: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:36:13PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 15:47 schrieb Douglas Tutty: > > > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:03:15PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > > Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 10:40 schrieben Sie: > > > > > On Friday 01 December 2006 23:05, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > > > > If your box supports booting from a USB floppy, would it boot from a > > > USB stick? If so forget about floppies and make a USB (hd-media) > > > install and put the netinst.iso on the stick. It works great. > > > Instructions are in the installation manual. > > > > Hmm....good point, but I would be surprised, if booting from an usb stick > > would work. It explicitly says in the BIOS floppy, there is no usb stick > > option. I would be surprised, if an usb stick and a floppy image look > > identical for the laptop (except the capacity). > > > > PXE does not work either. The vaio can boot from (USB) floppy drive, > > (expensive bootable Sony) ATAPI CDDRIVE, hdd. > > Can it boot a grub-disk floppy? > > Can you burn a CD? Or, on that nice hdd, make a 256 MB (or 1 GB if its > a large disk) partition. Put the hd-media and the netinst.iso there > following the long-way instructions for the hd-media. Boot that > partition and you're away. > > Once things are installed, turn that partition into extra swap. >
Doug, thanks for the reply. What is a grub-disk? I think all other steps sound promising (I could probably even use the partition used right now as swap). Thanks, Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch Alzentalstr. 28 D-71083 Herrenberg 07032-919495 jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 5966 C54C 2B3C 42CC 1F4F 8F59 E3A8 C538 7519 141E Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
