Re: Tricky installation - no bootable cd drive and no floppy drive
From: Ken Larson (kendotlarson_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 01/15/04
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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:00:29 -0500
Tilman Heinrich wrote:
> Ken Larson <kendotlarson@mindspring.com> wrote in
> news:bu0a2o$hn3$00$1@news.t-online.com:
>
>
>>I have a very very old thick as a brick laptop running windows 98,
>>It is not used anymore, I thought I might try to put SuSE on it
>>and have it run some menial tasks for me. It has a cd-rom, but no
>>floppy drive anymore. Ideally I would be able to do this without
>>having to remove windows 98, that is, make it dual-boot.
>>..
>>Any suggestions?
>
>
> I remember that the SuSE installation CD's had a "Setup.exe" for such
> situations up to version 6.3 at least. This program set the
> parameters for start the installation booting with loadlin.
>
> Let's try to find out the parameters manually (DOS-notation assuming
> your CD-drive is D:):
> 1) The installation kernel, formerly D:\suse\images\eide can found
> for SuSE 8.2 in D:\boot\loader\linux.
> 2) The installation initrd, formerly D:\suse\images\initdisk.gz can
> found in D:\boot\loader\initrd (SuSE 8.2)
> 3) The loadlin.exe resides in D:\dosutils\loadlin
> 4) Probably the amount of memory as hexadecimal value is needed if
> the first attempt fails with error
>
> Before you continue you have to prepare your Windows98 for booting in
> plain command line mode with CD-support an himem driver (ask for it
> elsewhere).
>
> At this point you can start the installation with a single line
> (assuming 64 MB Memory - the minimum):
> 'D:\dosutils\loadlin\loadlin.exe D:\boot\loader\linux root=200 rw 2
> initrd=D:\boot\loader\initrd [mem=0x4000000] [vga=3]'
>
> There is no need to copy any file from the SuSE-CD to the DOS-
> partition and nothing to take out from your laptop.
>
> Tilman Heinrich
>
Excellent - only problem is, I just checked, the machine has 40MB memory
- not enough for suse. Is there any way to get suse running with less
than the minimum memory? Or are there other linux distros that would
work for me in this situation?
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