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In article <JKZik.11955$3L5.11182@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Will Kemp <will@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>The easy way around that is to pull the hard drive out and put it in a
>machine with a DVD drive. You can get "IDE adapters" for notebook hard
>drives (or at least for those old IDE ones), which allow you to plug
>them into a desktop IDE port. I had to do that several times with my old
>DEC laptop.
>
>It's also worth checking for a network boot image - which allows you to
>do the install via a network connection. I don't know if they'll still
>fit on a floppy though...
I think you said, Martin, that your laptop had a CD but just wouldn't
boot from it - can't go back to check on this single threaded newsreader!
Older distros used to come with a boot floppy image on the CD, which you
could dd onto a diskette and which would then boot the CD. Designed for
use on machines which wouldn't boot from CD via their BIOS. That would
probably still work.
Or IIRC you can configure lilo/grub on an existing hard drive to give
"boot from CD" as a menu option, if you can remember the invocations :)
Nick
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