Re: Installation Woes

[Nathan Nutter <nathan.nutter@gmail.com>]

Most distro you can download floppy drive images and create them in
Windows with rawrite32, usually just requires two or three floppies

also search for something like tom's root boot disk or something like that.



On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:52:39 -0500, Aaron <acall@siu.edu> wrote:
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> Hello All, 
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> I have an older IBM Thinkpad that will not allow me to boot from a CD
> (really, no bios settings or Smart Boot Manager will make it). I have a
> small Win 98 install on it and Zipslack as well. I can boot from floppies
> but must reboot the system if I wish to switch to CD. I also presently have
> no network access with the unit. It is also pretty old (133 mhz with 64 meg
> ram) and only has about 1.5 gig left for linux partitions. 
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> So what distro can I use? It must be entirely contained on disks, if it
> requires a floppy boot, it has to create a bootable partition before it
> needs the source files from a CD. I think it would be easiest if the
> installation could be started in windows (like most windows installations)
> and just require the swapping of CDs. The distro must also allow me to
> minimize what is installed on it (no GUI for example). 
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> I just started school at SIU Law and haven't been able to make meetings for
> the last few months but might be able to meet this next meeting. Any
> suggestions or clarification questions would be great. I have used Gentoo
> for a while now but am still pretty novice at everything. 
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> Prost! 
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> Aaron Call 
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