On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 05:02:07PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hello
>
> I have a laptop, it's an acer with a pentium 100 and
> 16 meg ram. I want to install debian on it but I have
> a problem : I don't have a floppy drive(broken) and I
> don't have a cd drive. But,I have an adapter that
> enables me to plug my laptop harddrive in my desktop
> and this way, I can acces my laptop hard drive with
> my desktop and modify it. I also have a cable that
> enable me to transfer files by the parallel port.
>
> Whit this information, can you tell me how can I
> install debian on my laptop? By the way, my hard
> drive has a capacity of 775 megs.
>
> Thank you
>
> Moleculo at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
There are two ways, one, is to install the laptop drive in place of
your regular drive in the desktop, and install a basic system (probably
without X) and then move the drive over to the laptop and complete the
install, the other, is to do a net install after running loadlin on a
syslinux package. I'd do the first. Actually, what I did, was to untar
base2.2.tgz and drivers.tgz ( which in turn contains three other
tarballs) onto the laptop drive, then delete the sbin/unconfigured.sh
script so that the system would boot, and replace in laptop to continue
the install. Oh, you'll also need a kernel and to configure lilo for
that drive, as I think about it, the first method is easier if you can
do it :) (I was installing to a pcmcia drive, which debian install disks
didn't recognize.)
--
Jim Richardson
Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
