installing to Toshiba laptop from floppy

Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:45:54 -0400

Does it have a network connection?  The distros allow you to created a boot disk with network support and do the install across the network connection.

I have never done this myself but it is mentioned all over the place.

Alan

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:22:56 -0400 (EDT) Scott Henderson <boyhowdy@cyberspace.org> wrote:

I've acquired a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT laptop and
would like to install Linux on it... but it isn't
capable of booting to a CD, and the CD and floppy
drives fit into the same, single bay.  So I can use one
or the other, not both (don't have a connector cable).
How can I    1) create a install disk to begin an
install, and 2) swap out to the CD and have it
recognized to run the install?  Or am I going at this
wrong?  How can I install to such a machine?

Could I perhaps install a minimal system on a floppy,
boot to it, set up the hd, copy the minimal system to
the hd, then boot with the CD in and run the install?

Thanks!!

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