[sllug-members]: no CD Drive Linux install

Thomas S Hatch thatch45 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 28 18:54:05 MDT 2006


hmm, that sounds rather cool, how would I go about doing this?  It is new to
me, and yes, the laptop has a NIC (pcmcia)

On 10/28/06, raven <raven at kekeke.org> wrote:
>
> You could setup bootp, dhcpd, and tftp to get it to boot off the
> network, does it have a network port, or do you have a pcmcia network
> adapter?
>
> Thomas S Hatch wrote:
> > I got my hands on an old laptop and am trying to install linux, the
> > Debian floppies won't detect the hard drive, and instlux dosen't work
> > either, any ideas?  it is an old dell inspiron 3500
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