What I did in a similar situation (machine doens't have a floppy and the CDROM cannot boot) is to use fips, repartition windows to minimal terms, downlads the kernel into the wndows partition and use syslinux to boot from it. I haven't tried on newer windows but on 95/98 worked great. I then use the windows partion as swap.
graziano On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:44:28AM -0300, Leonardo Boiko wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:22:40AM -0300, Luciano Andino wrote: > > Hi to everyone! I'm new with Linux and laptops and want to put maybe? > > Debian on it. My problem is: My IBM Thinkpad 560X 200MHz (win98) has no > > cdrom o floppy, only a parallel port. How can I make it a Linux Box? Is > > it possible with an external ZIP if it is not booteable? > I had a similar problem; my friend's Thinkpad 365XD can't boot by cdrom, > and we were without a floppy drive. Since it came with Windows, what we > did was running some installation program (don't remember the name) > from the Debian CDs. > But since I can't reinstall anything, I'd like to hear other solutions > to this problem. > > -- > Leonardo Boiko > "How idiotic, nobody from a hundred years ago is around today. All > traces of them have vanished. But forgetting this, we desire > trivial things and become planners and schemers. How stupid!" > -- Suzuki Shosan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- +-----------------------+--------------------------+ | Graziano Obertelli | CS Dept. Rm 1151 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | University of California | | (805) 893-4384 | Santa Barbara, CA 93106 | +-----------------------+--------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
