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On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jim Lynch wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to help a friend install Linux from a laptop. The problem is
> > that it can have a floppy or a CDROM drive installed, but not both. The
> > solution seems to be to create an root/boot installation on a Win95 hard
> > disk, but I don't know how to do that. Any suggestions? No,
> > unfortunatly he can't boot from the CDROM. Not supported in the bios.
>
> >From win 95, you should be able to do a loadlin from a dos prompt. I
> don't remember the exact command line args, but you need to tell it where
> the kernel image is and where the root filesystem is. The easiest thing
> will be to do a floppy install (make the disks from win 95 and rawrite),
> and start off using loadlin until you are comfortable with lilo to
> overwrite your mbr and get a dual boot system.
There is a better way.
From ftp.debian.org, grab the entire base archive (In this case, I
think it should be base1_6.tgz or base1_7.tgz). This is the master that
the floppies are split from.
Additionally grab the pre-compiled linux kernel, loadlin, and the
rootdisk - root.bin. Grab FIPS to split a partition with.
After you have made room for linux all you need to do is read the
loadlin manual -- those three other files are all you need to boot up and
install debian from a secondary partition.
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