Re: Installing an iso to a laptop (no floppy no cd rom)
- From: "Tim Clark" <Timothy.Clark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:52:45 GMT
In article <hJudnZ9ITsV_shbanZ2dnUVZ8uqdnZ2d@xxxxxx>,
"jasee" <jasee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Bernard Peek wrote:
jasee wrote:^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I've got an old laptop without a cd drive or a floppy. I can take
the drive out and partition it and copy a linux iso to one of the
partitions, is there some way of putting grub or lilo somewhere so I
can start and install the iso to the hard disk. Is anything like
this possible?
If the laptop has a working network connection you should be able to
boot it from an install floppy and install Linux over the network.
That's how we did it in the good old days.
No floppy (it would be easy otherwise)
An alternative worth thinking about, should the laptop be capable of it,
is network boot. I had to do something with an old Compaq Armada M300
exactly a year ago (according to the diary I've keep of such things
since my disks began to outperform my brain cells in terms of
reliability).
The Compaq was without CD or floppy too, but on boot it offered the
choice of "F12 (Fn F11) PXEBOOT". After following the Google trail, and
discovering what PXE was all about, I installed pxelinux on a desktop
which runs FC4, and configured dhcp, and tftp servers on it too. Hey
presto the Compaq laptop was then able to boot over my LAN from the
library of floppy disk boot images, which I keep on that FC4 machine.
So now, it's just as though the laptop _does_ have a floppy drive - for
the only thing I use a floppy drive for. Even better - the "floppies"
don't become unreadable.
I found the following useful during that process:
http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=8&topic=pxeboot
http://home.allegiance.tv/~joem298/
http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php
--
Tim Clark
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