I have bought a new harddisk for my laptop and want to transfer Debian (2.1) from the current to the new harddisk. As this is a laptop I can't connect both drives at the same time, so I created a .tar.gz file that I stored on a different computer on the network. In order to extract this file to the new harddisk, I need to boot Linux and have available tar, gzip, and network connectivity. An extra complication is that I have a PCMCIA network card, so I need everything related to that as well.
How can I go about this? I've tried to create a boot/root disk combination using yard, but I can't get everything I need on 1.44 MB, and formatted to larger size the floppies become unbootable. The debian (2.0) boot disk (or rather, bootable CDROM) I have doesn't seem to have PCMCIA or tar on it. I have a parallel port zip drive if that helps, but I don't know how to boot from it. TIA, Gertjan. -- Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Boot Control home page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gklein/bcpage.html