this laptop has a 1.8" hard drive PXE is easiest. tutorials are available.
On Mar 12, 2011, at 10:21, [email protected] wrote: > Based on my knowledge of USB, yes it should work. > But it will be butt-scrape slow. It will probably > take several hours just to boot. > > Another approach that I've used with a laptop whose > BIOS fails to boot over USB is to do a server install > from a separate computer. In other words, remove the > hard drive from the laptop and install it in some > other computer as the only hard drive. This computer > needs to have an optical drive. Do an install of an > image *without* X-windows. > > Now pull the hard drive and reinstall it in the laptop. > apt-get the X-windows packages. > > One minor glitch with this approach is that the ethernet > interface will be different. At least with Ubuntu, > the system will find the laptop's ethernet interface > and all will be well. The only funny is that it will > be on eth1. Eth0 will be non-functional since it will > be tied to the other computer's interface, which doesn't > exist on the laptop. I haven't noticed any functional > problems from this. It's just a little funny. > Undoubtedly it is possible to fix this cosmetic defect. > But since it hasn't caused me problems I just ignore it. > -- > Allen Brown abrown at peak.org http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ > Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational > things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the > principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. --- Scott Adams > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "marbux" <[email protected]> > To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 8:12:31 PM > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] anyone want some neat Linux-related hardware? > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:26 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've done an install on a optical-less laptop using a USB to >> SATA interface and a SATA CDROM. This works with PATA just >> as well. And it may be more straightforward than PXE boot. > > Hi, Allen, > > Any idea whether that method works via a USB 1.0 connection? > > I suspect my friend might feel less challenged by Puppy Linux. > > Best regards, > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
