Taking the laptop's hard disk and using it as a secondary hard disk on another computer with mini ide to ide converter would do the trick. If you have another computer and said converter.
2009/10/31 AG <computing.acco...@googlemail.com> > On a previous thread, I had polled some advice on the best way to install > Debian on an old laptop that lacked a CD drive. A number of suggestions > were made and I eventually went with the idea of changing the pre-existing > /boot/lilo.conf and adding a newly downloaded vmlinuz and init.gz Then I > copied a netinst *.iso image onto a USB stick and booted. > > All went well, and I was able to install a new Debian system. However, > when I went to reboot into the system I received the "EBDA is big; kernel > setup stack overlaps LILO second stage" message. Googling this message > throws back a number of suggested solutions which break down into one of two > choices - changing the lilo.conf file (difficult since I cannot get into the > lilo.conf due to the system having been locked at boot up) and using a > rescue CD (difficult because it has no CD drive to work with). I cannot ssh > into the laptop because it hasn't booted and so I am left with a laptop that > cannot boot, cannot use a CD disk to boot and which is fundamentally > useless. > > Can anyone suggest a way that I can get this thing to boot given the > significant constraints described or has this now been reduced to a hunk of > plastic for use as a doorstop? > > Thanks for any ideas. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net
