[Gllug] Linux installation conundrum

[Paul Cupis]

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On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 15:18, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
> Situation: very old laptop which lacks (working) floppy or a CD drive
> of any sort. However it's running an ancient copy of Red Hat (4.2 or
> 5.2 or something!) with a 2.2.17 kernel.
>
> It has working PCMCIA, and I have CF cards, network cards, etc. all
> working fine.
>
> I'd very much like to get Debian onto this machine. My problem is
> booting the initial kernel. Given that I can copy any required files
> onto the laptop either over the network or on CF cards, is it at all
> possible to get the Debian installer booted on this system? I'm
> thinking some sort of "boot Linux within Linux" option.

It's in the Debian installation guide.

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade

Alternatively, there are HOWTO's at:

  http://trilldev.sourceforge.net/files/remotedeb.html

and in this thread:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200204/msg01010.html

Have fun :)

Paul Cupis
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paul at cupis.co.uk

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