Tim Tebbit wrote:
AG wrote:
Then I copied a netinst *.iso image onto a USB stick and
booted.
Thanks for any ideas.
Does this mean you can boot from USB? If that's the case a simple
debootstrap install from knoppix would be fairly quick and easy.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html.en
Thanks guys for your ideas.
In no order of priority, the responses to your suggestions:
(1) I tried removing the HD but cannot get to it (there are three screws
that are threaded) and I don't really want to break open the plastic
casing.
(2) Yes, it does have a floppy drive but I have no other machine that
can write to floppies, so don't know how I could transfer any floppy
boot-image to a floppy
(3) The laptop's BIOS is too old to allow booting from a USB (only
allows HD, CD or floppy). It requires something to boot first before it
can mount additional files such a USB stick.
This is currently seeming like an impossible challenge, but I am
reluctant to give up because the machine itself is pretty decent albeit
a few years' old and without a CD drive.
Any other ideas?
