Carson, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 26 February 2001 14:24
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Subject: [expert] Installing Mandrake without a boot floppy or bootable CD
Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out how to do something which seems simple, but is
perhaps deceptively difficult. Let me explain:
I
Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out how to do something which seems simple, but is
perhaps deceptively difficult. Let me explain:
I have an elderly laptop upon which I have installed Red Hat 6.0. This was
an interesting procedure because (a) the laptop has no floppy drive, and (b)
it can't boot
On Mon Feb 26 2001 10:24, You wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out how to do something which seems simple, but is
perhaps deceptively difficult. Let me explain:
Did You try FTP install ? I use this way on mine and worked perfectly.
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Best Regards,
Pedro Del Medico P.
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Hi Pedro,
I'm trying to figure out how to do something which seems simple, but is
perhaps deceptively difficult. Let me explain:
Did You try FTP install ? I use this way on mine and worked perfectly.
I may be misunderstanding what an FTP install involves, but isn't it booting
from a
*** Idea for installing/upgrading below...
"Carson, David" wrote:
I have an elderly laptop upon which I have installed Red Hat 6.0. This was
an interesting procedure because (a) the laptop has no floppy drive, and (b)
it can't boot from a CD-ROM. Which is tricky, given that just about
Pedro Del Medico wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how to do something which seems simple, but is
perhaps deceptively difficult. Let me explain:
Did You try FTP install ? I use this way on mine and worked perfectly.
But... did you boot without a floppy on a system that won't boot from
On Mon Feb 26 2001 15:40, You wrote:
But... did you boot without a floppy on a system that won't boot from
CD...?
This is the dilema of older Toshiba laptops...
Pierre
Ok, older Toshiba are like other laptops, and as I said in an earlier
message, I have among other laptops one Compaq
Pedro Del Medico wrote:
On Mon Feb 26 2001 15:40, You wrote:
But... did you boot without a floppy on a system that won't boot from
CD...?
This is the dilema of older Toshiba laptops...
Pierre
Ok, older Toshiba are like other laptops, and as I said in an earlier
message, I
