Re: Quick Question

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:17:06 -0700, ray wrote:

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:42:55 -0500, Provocator wrote:

I have an old Dell laptop, a Pentium 1 with 64 MEGs of RAM and cannot
boot from CD because I lost my BIOS password.

Is there a way to install Linux other than booting from the install.
I do not have an ethernet card on the laptop.

Thank You

Maybe you can just sit on it and do it by osmosis. Come on - no CD no NIC
- that does not leave much.


Does it boot from floppy ?
You can make a boot floppy from most linux cd1's from dos or windows. You
then put the cd in boot from the floppy and it accesses the cdrom drive.


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