Re: CD-less linux installl for old laptop?

From: Stefan Monnier (monnier_at_iro.umontreal.ca)
Date: 05/13/04 

Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 20:18:33 GMT

>> NEC Versa 2435, P133/48MB Ram, 2 GB HDD and 1.44 FDD, no CD, but a
>> parallel port Zip 100 drive is available. The ethernet card is a
>> Linksys Etherfast100 (AsixBroadcom chipset). The Suse installer likes
>> it and my PCMCIA chipset fine.

I had good results following the instructions under "Booting from hard
disk" in:

http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/doc/INSTALLATION-HOWTO

        Stefan

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