On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:36:13PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 15:47 schrieb Douglas Tutty: > > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:03:15PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 10:40 schrieben Sie: > > > > On Friday 01 December 2006 23:05, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > If your box supports booting from a USB floppy, would it boot from a USB > > stick? If so forget about floppies and make a USB (hd-media) install > > and put the netinst.iso on the stick. It works great. Instructions are > > in the installation manual. > > Hmm....good point, but I would be surprised, if booting from an usb stick > would work. It explicitly says in the BIOS floppy, there is no usb stick > option. I would be surprised, if an usb stick and a floppy image look > identical for the laptop (except the capacity). > > PXE does not work either. The vaio can boot from (USB) floppy drive, > (expensive bootable Sony) ATAPI CDDRIVE, hdd. Can it boot a grub-disk floppy?
Can you burn a CD? Or, on that nice hdd, make a 256 MB (or 1 GB if its a large disk) partition. Put the hd-media and the netinst.iso there following the long-way instructions for the hd-media. Boot that partition and you're away. Once things are installed, turn that partition into extra swap. Good luck. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
