On Wed, 23 May 2001, Peter Hardy wrote:
> Thought I'd throw this one out there, because I know it's come up at various
> InstallFests.
>
> Basically, we've come across a 486 laptop that we'd like to get linux onto,
> and use as a terminal. The machine has no CD-ROM, and won't have any
> ethernet until I can afford a PCMCIA network card.
>
> The current plan is to either hack up a debian install disk with PPP, or use
> a rescue disk like tomsrtbt to put the base packages on to the hard drive.
>
> Any suggestions?
Only way I could see to do this with any degree of ease would be to use
toms or something similar to make a PPP connection over a null modem cable
to another Linux boxen with a CD drive, then copy the relavent packages to
the hard disk, then run your boot floppy and tell it you're installing
locally.
You'd need two partitions, though - one to put the packages on {maybe you
could reuse it later for swap, if you're doing a minimal enough
installation and can keep the size down}, and one to do the install on.
DaZZa
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