On Monday 04 November 2002 05:01, harry wrote: > thanks to Franki, I will install 7.0 version on my laptop!! it only has > 16mb RAM. > > could anyone help me figure out how to transfer the installation file onto > the laptop hard drive via laplink? that is all I have, aside from 1.2 gb > hardrive installed with windows 3.1 and Dos and 7.0 Mandrake CD... > > thanks, > > Harry
I'm in sort of a simular spot. I've got a pentium TPad (48M ram, 2 Gig) which doesn't have a floppy drive (got lost somewhere) but does have an internal cdrom which isn't bootable. If you can stick your Hd into some other laptop (I can't) just for the install, you'll be fine. If not, you're in for a spot of work and/or fun:o) My option is to install 'zipslack' (or BasicLinux) on dos\win to have a "workable" linux for the creation of the ext2 and swap partitions. Used 'fips' under dos (on the mdk-cd: /dosutilities/fips.exe) to resize the win partition beforehand. Zipslack can install lilo in the mbr for you....that way the double boot option is there. That's as far as I got for the time being. Now the headaches: I prepared a seperate small partition to put the mdk or slackware (the latter being my preference) bootdisk images on. Alas I haven't been able to get that working yet, fidling with lilo. apparently floppies and HD'partitions differ too much. Anybody got any tips on how to emulate a flioppy drive or how tell lilo it's got load the 'floppy' partition into ram? Everytime I try to add the 'floppy'partition as "unsafe" I get the message that it isn't compatible with "tables". Anybody able to shed a light there? Or maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree:o( Good Hunting, Harm
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