Re: installing 10.1 on old laptop

limestone-cowboy wrote:

I would like to install Suse 10.1 on an old lifebook B2130. What would I
need to copy to a hard disk to then take the disk and put it into the
laptop instead of using the floppy drive to boot the laptop as I cannot
boot from CD. Any help appreciated.

This link might help :

http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_without_CD

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Dirk Roos
SUSE Linux 10.0 - ubuntu 5.04
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