Aaron Brown on Wed, 8 Sep 1999 18:57:25 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] How to load linux on a laptop??


Did you try booting the system withthecdrom and drive in it, and go into
your bios settings and set it to boot off CDROM?  That is the easiest way
I know of installing it on a computer that only has a cdrom drive.

-- 
-Rune

Einsteins theory of Relativity mean that no matter what direction you go
in life you have a relative that has a theory...

In the Depths of the minds of the insane Fantasy and Reality are the
same...

On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Daniel G Roberts wrote:

:Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 15:59:11 -0400
:From: Daniel G Roberts <daniel.roberts@bms.com>
:Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:Subject: [Plug] How to load linux on a laptop??
:
:> Hello all
:
:I have never installed Linux on a laptop..and I am seeking some help here.
:
:What I have so far is I have made a bootable disk use RAWRITE and then I can
:boot a linux kernel from this floppy.
:
:From here I need to slid out my floppy disk drive and slide in my cdrom drive
:and throw in a RedHat 6.0 installation CD...but my problem is that I can't
:get the cdrom to mount.  How do I go abopt mounting a toshiba drive on an AST
:laptop after I have booted the laptop with a floppy drive which I  then have
:to disconnect from the machine in order to slide in the CDROM device.
:
:
:Thanks for the help!!!
:
:Dan
:


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