small laptop with only floppy drive

2005-04-04 Thread Brandon Richards
I have a small laptop with a 100 mhz processor not sure how much ram but it only has a floppy drive on it. I was wanting to put debian on it but not sure how to do it. I have put debian on my desktop system which has a 500 mhz pentium III with 384 MBs of ram on it several times. The laptop now

Re: small laptop with only floppy drive

2005-04-04 Thread David Mandelberg
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 02:37 -0500, Brandon Richards wrote: > I have a small laptop with a 100 mhz processor not sure how much ram > but it only has a floppy drive on it. I was wanting to put debian on > it but not sure how to do it. I have put debian on my desktop system > which has a 500 mhz pe

Re: small laptop with only floppy drive

2005-04-04 Thread Willie McKemie
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 02:37:40AM -0500, Brandon Richards wrote: > I have a small laptop with a 100 mhz processor not sure how much ram > but it only has a floppy drive on it. I was wanting to put debian on > it but not sure how to do it. I have put debian on my desktop system You already have

Re: small laptop with only floppy drive

2005-04-04 Thread Eric Cooper
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 02:37:40AM -0500, Brandon Richards wrote: > I have a small laptop with a 100 mhz processor not sure how much ram > but it only has a floppy drive on it. I was wanting to put debian on > it but not sure how to do it. Yet another option is to find an external CD drive that

Re: small laptop with only floppy drive

2005-04-04 Thread Brandon Richards
Hey Eric, Can you tell me where I can find a backpack CD drive. I know I could probably find one on ebay but I dont have any money to spend on such stuff? Maybe some help? All good solutions that I hadn't thought about. Thanks guys. Brandon Richards On Apr 4, 2005 12:07 PM, Eric Cooper <[EMA

Re: small laptop with only floppy drive

2005-04-04 Thread A. C. Censi
An alternative is to use another Linux computer and connect it to your notebook thru the parallel interface. It is old fashioned but works: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/PLIP-Install-HOWTO.html Linux Gazette online journal issue 43 covered Debian 2.1 install thru PLIP Good luck! ACC On A

Re: thinkpad t42 number lock/number pad problem

2005-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I didn't get this to work. The script 40xcustom_load-xmodmap makes X fail to activate no matter what I do. However, in the process of wrestling with this problem I discovered that a program called tleds_21 is activated during bootup. This program makes the Scroll Lock and Number Lock leds to bli

Re: thinkpad t42 number lock/number pad problem

2005-04-04 Thread Ian Greenhoe
apt-get remove tleds On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 14:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sooner or later I'll have to figure out where in the boot > sequence tleds is invoked and comment out that line. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: HP Compaq nx8030 hung up installing Sarge [was Re: HP Compaq nx8030 hung up installing Sarge]

2005-04-04 Thread Joaquin CARABALLO MORENO
Quoting Joaquin CARABALLO MORENO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Joaquin CARABALLO MORENO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to install a Sarge in a HP Compaq nx8030 By the way, I meant "HP Compaq nx9030"... oops O;-) Kind regards, JoaquĆ­n ---