[Rule-list] preparing Richard's laptop

Devon devon at tuxfan.homeip.net
Sun Mar 17 16:13:30 EET 2002


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On Sunday 17 March 2002 10:19 am, Richard Kweskin wrote:
> Hello All

Hi Richard. Welcome aboard!

> Perhaps it is too early to ask:
>
> The laptop has no cd drive and I won't try to remove the hdd.

Disclamer, completely untested...

You might be able to do a network install. You can try:
Getting the images from 
http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/rule/images-0.7.0/
I believe you need the bootnet.img, and the drvblock.img
Create disks with:
dd if=imagename of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

You'll also need to create an updates disk.
http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/rule/updates-v0.7.0.tar
Untar the archive and copy all the files on a floppy.

If you boot from the bootnet.img and at the syslinux prompt, enter:
linux dd updates, it should prompt for the driver disk and the updates 
disk. This method, if it works, will need at least 12M of RAM.

I'll have to try this myself tonight. :)

Good luck, perhaps someone else will have more experience in this 
department.

- -D

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