Carlton,
Since you're installing Mandrake and your machine only has 700MB of total
space you won't have sufficient space for a dual boot machine. In fact,
you may find it a bit tight squeezing Mandrake on there. However, a
workstation install should fit.
To install with an older CDROM shouldn't be too hard. If you've got an
Micro$oft CDROM setup disk lying around that will work wonderfully. If you
don't just email me and I'll zip you one up and send it to you. That will
allow you to boot your machine with the floppy and hopefuly load the CDROM
drivers to get the whole process started.
If that doesn't work you make have to make a boot floppy with the CDROM
boot.img and try booting with that. Those iamges should be on the Mandrake
installation CD's.
--
Mark
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 7:54pm ,Carlton Dodd spake passionately in a message:
>
>
> (Second sending, Hoping to catch someone's attention who's done this)
>
> Anyone have any work-arounds to install LM 7.0 on a laptop?
>
> I have an old Texas Instruments P75 laptop with 40MB RAM and a 700MB HDD.
>
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1. Is this laptop sufficient for running Linux? With a GUI?
> I will devote the system completely to Linux if I need to, but I'd love
> to be able to run a dual-boot if there's enough space so I can learn that
> as well.
>
> 2. How do I actually install from the CD?
> Unfortunately, I cannot simply boot from the CD like you can on newer
> machines. The install instructions say to just make a boot floppy and
> then install from the CD, but my laptop only allows me to install one
> drive (CD or Floppy) at a time. And I have to shut off the machine in
> between. Can I make a floppy that will install enough so I can shut
> down, swap to the CD drive, and go from there?
>
> Thanks for any help you can give,
> Carlton
>
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