installing to Toshiba laptop from floppy

[KevinO]

I have a Toshiba 730 CDT, P-150 and I installed Mandrake 8.0 onto it using the 
network method. You will have to make the 'network' and 'pcmcia' floppies. The 
instructions are on CD-1. The one gotcha was that the network install never 
prompted me for the 2nd CD. I got around this by copying the contents of the 
CDs onto the server so that both rpm directories (RPMS, RPMS2) were in the 
Mandrake directory. KDE2 is slow to load on this machine, even with 80MB ram.

Scott Henderson 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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