"william villanueva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just gotten hold of an old ECS notebook and was thinking of trying > to install linux on it. The problem is that it can only mount one drive > at a time, either the floppy or the cdrom. And the bios is old such > that you can only boot from a floppy. > Any recommended steps to install linux on it?
You can do a hard drive or network install. Follow the instructions in the install manual of your favorite distro. (what, your favorite distro doesn't have a _real_ install manual? Go for Debian. ;) ) A hard drive install will generally be of the form copy-these-files-to-your-hard-disk-and-then-run-this-program; a network install can install Linux from files on HTTP, FTP, NFS or SMB(?) servers. -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 4 BS CS Ateneo geekette interests: emacs, gnu/linux, wearables, teaching compsci _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
