Fritz Ilg wrote: > > Hi Debian Linux users: > > I am a Linux novice and I have a Slackware Linux distribution installed > on my Toshiba 105CS Satellite, which works fine. I am planning to install > DEBIAN Linux on to my Laptop. Unfortunately I have no CD-ROM drive avail- > able with this Laptop which make this attempt impossible. > I have one CD-ROM with the DEBIAN Linux distribution on it. As I am able > to run this CD on a Windows-based PC-System WIN95 on a seperat computer I > thought it might be possible to make floppys, like I did with the > Slackware distribution. I soon realized that a lot of files are too large > to fit onto the disk. > > Is there anybody out there ...who can give me some advises how I can > solve this problem. > > Many thanks to all of you. > > Fritz Ilg
I did my first install from CD-ROM by bringing the hard drive to my WIN95 workstation. I used the rawrite.exe program from dos to make the install floppy set. Then I put the target drive in as drive "C:" and installed Linux on it. Of course, the laptop disk drive might be incompatible with the workstation disk controller. If that won't work for you then tell us more: Do you have any way of connecting the machines? ethernet? serial ports? parallel ports? Paul Wade
