Re: Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread Heather
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I have a mate who wants me to install linux on his system. Unfortunatly for > some reason the floppy and cdrom can't be used at the same time. > The url for his system is at the following, > http://www.olecomp.com/ihdesk/portab_u/EchosP/Ech

Re: Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread Heather
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I have a mate who wants me to install linux on his system. Unfortunatly for > some reason the floppy and cdrom can't be used at the same time. > The url for his system is at the following, > http://www.olecomp.com/ihdesk/portab_u/EchosP/Ec

Re: Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread matthschulz
I think on debian-cd's is a from dos bootable linuxkernel. It's named when i right remember loadlin.com or loadlin.exe. Maybe this is a possibility. Matth On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, Benjamin F. Zhou wrote: > you can conveniently install from a mounted NFS file system (your mounted CD) > exported from y

Re: Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread Benjamin F. Zhou
you can conveniently install from a mounted NFS file system (your mounted CD) exported from your existing Linux box. Redhat has a disk image bootnet.img you can download, and boot from, it will prompt you for the NFS file system after boot. It should work the same over slip or plip. Use pcmcia.im

Re: Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread matthschulz
I think on debian-cd's is a from dos bootable linuxkernel. It's named when i right remember loadlin.com or loadlin.exe. Maybe this is a possibility. Matth On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, Benjamin F. Zhou wrote: > you can conveniently install from a mounted NFS file system (your mounted CD) > exported from

Re: Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard voy1d say > I have a mate who wants me to install linux on his system. Unfortunatly for > some reason the floppy and cdrom can't be used at the same time. > The url for his system is at the following, > http://www.olecomp.com/ihdesk/portab_u/EchosP/EchoP100DEndUser.htm >

Re: Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread Benjamin F. Zhou
you can conveniently install from a mounted NFS file system (your mounted CD) exported from your existing Linux box. Redhat has a disk image bootnet.img you can download, and boot from, it will prompt you for the NFS file system after boot. It should work the same over slip or plip. Use pcmcia.img

Re: Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard voy1d say > I have a mate who wants me to install linux on his system. Unfortunatly for > some reason the floppy and cdrom can't be used at the same time. > The url for his system is at the following, > http://www.olecomp.com/ihdesk/portab_u/EchosP/EchoP100DEndUser.htm

Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread voy1d
I have a mate who wants me to install linux on his system. Unfortunatly for some reason the floppy and cdrom can't be used at the same time. The url for his system is at the following, http://www.olecomp.com/ihdesk/portab_u/EchosP/EchoP100DEndUser.htm I guess I would have to boot into DOS and run

Installing potato on a laptop

2000-07-07 Thread voy1d
I have a mate who wants me to install linux on his system. Unfortunatly for some reason the floppy and cdrom can't be used at the same time. The url for his system is at the following, http://www.olecomp.com/ihdesk/portab_u/EchosP/EchoP100DEndUser.htm I guess I would have to boot into DOS and run