Installation suggestions needed.

From: Aextrox (not_at_given.com)
Date: 07/05/04 

Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 01:17:43 GMT

I recently purchased a Toshiba Libretto 50ct off of ebay (Pentium 75,
32mb ram, 800mb HD). The 50ct has no built in floppy or CD drive.
The 50ct I purchased came with a pcmcia floppy disk drive (no CD). I
have read up on installing linux, and there is a difficulty. Because
the floppy drive is proprietary it is not supported (for the install
at least), if you're going to install linux it will only boot the
first floppy. If the installation asks you to put in any other
floppies after the first one, they won't load. It will always fail if
you're asked to insert disk #2.
        So then I am left with either trying to find some way to
install linux that requires only a single floppy for the install, or
the other option I see is partioning the HD into two parts, one for
windows/dos, one for linux, installing win95, downloading a linux onto
the free space in the win95 partition, and then finding some way to
start the linux install/setup.
        My preference for linux is a version as recent as possible and
convenient, and preferably of the slackware or debian variety.
        My question then is: is there some way I can start the linux
install/setup process for Debian potato or woody, or Slackware (7,8,9,
or 10), by just downloading a large part of the distribution to my
fat16 partition, and then somehow (this is where I get lost) start the
install process from files on my HD?
        I've installed slackware 7.1 on a 486 laptop that only had a
floppy drive before. I had a fat16 partition on which I downloaded
all the slackware packages to. But in order to start the install I
had to grab the 2 floppy root/install disk set. Since the 50ct will
only allow one for one floppy, I am looking for some way to start the
install without using the two floppy set.
        Thanks in advance for any help.
        

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