Am 03. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte Kyle Faber so:
> =09I have recently come into posession of a pentium 100ish laptop, everyt=
hing
> else is circa the same technology level. The BIOS does not support boot =
from
> CD and the floppy drive does not read disks.
>
> =09It had Windows 98 installed when I recieved it and I successfully used
> loadlin from DOS to boot a slackware install disk. I have decided that s=
lack
> is not the distro for this machine at the moment so my question is:
>
> "How do I use an existing linux installation to start a new installation,=
ie:
> successfully boot to the terminal on the slack install, issue a command a=
nd
> have the installtion for a different distro startup."
There's a guide to installing debian over the top of an existing GNU/Linux
setup.
http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=3D945
You might not have room for that. Maybe you could use the existing install
to install a mini-dist at the tail end of the drive, then use that to
bootstrap installing debian. Seems like a pain, though :).
It might be easier to pull the hard drive and use a converter to hook it up
to an IDE cable. Do the install via a desktop, the put the hard drive back
in the laptop. I have one of those connectors. I think it was $2.
ciao,
der.hans
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