installing to Toshiba laptop from floppy

[Patrick Fleming EA]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 alandd@mindspring.com wrote:

> 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

I've done a few network installs. Some go easier than others, depending 
upon hardware, etc. Note that you will need a server for any of the three 
potential installs (unless of course you have a screaming net connection 
and can do the ftp install from one of the distros sites) You can do 
NFS, FTP or HTTP installs. Another possiblity is to copy the cd to your 
hard drive.. if I was going to do it that way I would boot with toms 
root/boot disk and switch the drive- of course I don't know if Tom's will 
support the swapping of the drive..


> 
> 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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