AG wrote: > I have an old generic laptop which has Slackware 10.1 installed. It has > access to the Internet as well as to a small LAN. The machine it is > connected via a hub to is my main desktop/ workstation which runs Debian > testing. The CD-ROM drive in the laptop does not work. This is a > hardware issue, so installation via CD is not feasible. > > The laptop does have a couple of USB drive sockets, but I don't think > that the BIOS is sufficiently modern to boot from a USB drive (the > laptop was bought circa 2002 from a company that has since gone belly up). > > What is the best method for getting this laptop up and running in the > 21st Century with Debian testing? > > Thanks for any ideas/ suggestions. > > AG
This sounds like a fun way to meet debootstrap. [1] Hopefully you have a partition around you can play with. I've read about destroying swap to get things going. Then once you have a very basic Debian system up and running, reclaim the rest of the disk. [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html.en -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
