[Techtalk] Installing Linux on an older laptop

Rebecca J. Walter rjp at mail.tele.dk
Mon Mar 10 10:18:01 EST 2003


On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 01:58, Andrea Landaker wrote:
> > I'm in a bit of a pickle.  I have this old Dell Latitude XPi machine,
> > it's wimpy.  It has an SMC9000 nic in the docking station, 24mb ram, and
> > just about a gig of hard drive space.
> 
> Well, I don't know about for other distros (though I would assume they have 
> something similar), but in Mandrake there's an "images" directory under the 
> root directory on the CD.  Inside you will find a bunch of images, like 
> "network", "cdrom", "hd".  If you copy this image to a floppy, using a 
> command like:
> dd if=network.img of=/dev/fd0
> then you can boot off the floppy and it will use the method for that 
> particular image (ie, network will ask for an ftp/nfs/web server; hd will ask 
> where it is on the harddrive, etc).

SuSE has something similar... You can make module and boot disks from
images on the cd.  then mount or copy the cds onto another box and share
them over the network.  use the boot and module cds to get it started
then do a network install.



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