[Watford] Second Hard Disk

[walt]

I have had this problem before where I could not install windows on a
laptop.  What I ended up doing is take the hard disk out of the laptop,
using another pc create a small active partition and transfer the cd image
onto it which booted and then installed the os on an extended partition. Its
fraught with potential snags but it worked fine after changing the boot.ini
etc.  As I say that was with windows but I wonder if a similar process could
be used with Linux?

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Jonathan Dibble
Sent: 17 January 2008 23:17
To: watford at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Watford] Second Hard Disk

hi everyone,
wonder if anyone can help?

I have a tiny protege toshiba laptop from work.  its a bit old but came 
with xp pre-installed so it can't be too antique . pentium3 processor.  
i would like to get rid of windows and install linux on it.  however, it 
has no cd-rom due to its size.  i don't think it has an option to boot 
from usb either.  it says it has fdd emulation via usb. the other option 
is to boot from the network with pbx i think its called.

any ideas how i can get the damn thing to boot from a usb drive or a 
cd-rom?  i don't have the docking station which it obviously can be 
booted from.

many thanks,
Jon.

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