Julesg wrote:
I want to put up 3.8 on my laptop.
Can I download and run a DOS or Windoz pgm?
you can download lots of DOS and Windows programs. Few will help you
with this task, however. :)
I don't think I'm up to a PXE install., (It's the TCP scripting that frightens
me.)
What TCP scripting? Set up a DHCP server, a TFTP server. Pretty easy.
There's a nice little FAQ entry about it, even. Kinda cool to watch a
machine boot "nothing" :)
If you really don't have a floppy and a CDROM and don't want to do a PXE
boot, you are pretty well eliminating most of the standard install
processes. About all that is left is pull the hard disk out, get an
adapter to attach to another machine (either via IDE port or via
USB...picked up a really slick one for $20 recently), install on another
machine, replace in your laptop, reconfigure the network appropriately.
'course, you could probably get/borrow a USB floppy drive or CDROM drive
as well. But taking apart laptops is fun! (it is the reassembly that
causes hair loss)
Nick.
