Hi,
15 years ago I had a laptop with broken CD drive but with integrated
working ethernet NIC and bios supported PXE boot, so I configured
isc-dhcp-server in my network which provides pxelinux.0 bootloader and
address of tftp server.
On tftp server I uploaded pxeboot images from Debian. All I had to do
was to unzip netinstaller from Debian repositories and that it
If in your computer NIC is integrated in motherboard I bet it supports
PXE boot.
I installed also Debian on Pentium II machine without without NIC
integrated bout I bought 3com nic for 1USD with PXE bootloader and was
able to install Debian without CD or USB flash
You can have a look https://wiki.debian.org/PXEBootInstall
Best regards,
Łukasz
On 1.08.2024 14:41, Richard Owlett wrote:
I have an elderly Sony laptop and a more ancient desktop with unknown
motherboard happily running i386 Debian 9.0. As far as I can tell the
BIOS of neither machine supports booting from a flash drive. Neither
has functional CD/DVD drive. Both hard drives have copious free space.
Both machines have internet access.
Though this machine is 64Bit capable and bootable from flash, it does
not have adequate free space for an additional OS.
Are there documented install instructions covering machines described
in first paragraph?
TIA
