On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Joseph Reisinger wrote:
> Hey, I've been playing around with linux for prolly a year now, and I've
> decided to install linux on my laptop (Sony sr5k). Only problem is, I dont
> have a cd-rom drive (or floppy drive for that matter) for it. Basically,
> being the cheap guy I am, I'd like to borrow someone's pcmcia cd-rom drive so I
> can get Debian on it.
>
> If any of you have such a drive youre willing to part with for an
> afternoon, please contact me.
If you don't get any responses (fortunately, most laptops don't have such
restrictions), you have another option:
1) I have an external (parallel port) zip drive.
2) It is possible to boot from it using the dos linux loader. (I forget
the name of that piece of s/w.)
I think there may even be a HOW-TO about it.
Actually, I don't know if this will work, because I think there are only
Windows (not DOS) Zip drive drivers. And when I used the dos linux loader
last (5 years ago), I had to boot into DOS first.
Well, this may or may not help ;)
(You could do a similar thing if you have > 1 partition on your hd.)
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