On Dec 17, 2007 6:54 PM, Mark Schoonover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good Evening, > > Would you happen to have one collecting dust somewhere? I'm in need of one > to install Linux on a fairly old laptop that doesn't come with a CDROM > built-in. I've tried the various netboot installs, but the full blown > Xubuntu is just too much for this little 500Mhz processor.... > > What I'd really like to try it install is Puppylinux, maybe there's another > approach?
I've had good luck with installing to hard drives connected via a USB adapter to another computer that has a CDROM. Pick up a laptop IDE to USB adapter for around $30.00 and hook it up to a desktop with USB & CDROM with its drives disconnected to prevent accidents. You have to know the right files to edit to get the drivers straightened back out on some distributions, but it's a lot easier these days than it used to be. On most modern distributions, you only need to update /etc/modprobe.conf, /etc/fstab, and sometimes run mkinitrd. A lot of times, even these edits aren't necessary on the latest Fedora & Ubuntu most of the time, since drives are mounted by label/uuid and IDE devices show up as SCSI devices due to the switch to libata to handle PATA (IDE) drives. Puppy Linux probably does not use libata for IDE so double-check fstab if you try this method. I have these two adapters and both work flawlessly under Linux: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156101 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156017 Good luck, -Al > > Thanks! > > -- > Mark Schoonover > http://ka6wke.blogspot.com > http://marksitblog.blogspot.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Give me ambiguity, or give me something else! --kelsey hudson > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
