On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 10:48, Chuck Shirley wrote: > Hi Experts, poor guy, asks for experts and gets me responding... > I have a cooker machine, a laptop, that I want to make a fresh install > on, but there is a problem, it has no floppy drive. Rather than make > a set of CDs, I want to put the hd.image on a cdr, and boot that. The > laptop is running a stale cooker distribution, and has a current mirror, > but has nearly 500 stale packages installed. I am not a cdrecord ninja, > and when I tried to make the bootable disc with xcdroast, I failed even > though I told it to make a bootable cd with the hd.img boot disk image.
It maybe sort of a pain, but you could certainly pull the hard drive from that laptop and do an install from a desktop machine (you'll need an adapter, of course). also, a few of the cd places out there (cheapbytes.com et.al.) offer cooker disks, and I'm sure they'd be happy to burn you off a few disks of the absolute latest. or <humor>you could send me $20 to the address on my website and I'll burn the disks for you</humor> unless you'd acually send me $20. and that's USD, nun-a-that canadian stuff. -- jason gmaestro.org
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