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From: jasee on 13 Jan 2008 14:41
I've got an old laptop without a cd drive or a floppy. I can take the drive
out and partition it and copy a linux iso to one of the partitions, is there
some way of putting grub or lilo somewhere so I can start and install the
iso to the hard disk. Is anything like this possible?


From: Tony Houghton on 13 Jan 2008 19:08
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"jasee" <jasee(a)btinternet.com> wrote:

> I've got an old laptop without a cd drive or a floppy. I can take the
> drive out and partition it and copy a linux iso to one of the
> partitions, is there some way of putting grub or lilo somewhere so I
> can start and install the iso to the hard disk. Is anything like this
> possible?

You can do the entire installation on whichever machine you intend to
use to copy the ISO. Unlike the Windows NT family, a typical Linux
installation can boot up successfully on any PC with the same processor
family unless you compile the kernel yourself and tailor it for your CPU
model and/or leave out drivers you don't want.

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TH * http://www.realh.co.uk

From: Bernard Peek on 13 Jan 2008 20:03
jasee wrote:
> I've got an old laptop without a cd drive or a floppy. I can take the drive
> out and partition it and copy a linux iso to one of the partitions, is there
> some way of putting grub or lilo somewhere so I can start and install the
> iso to the hard disk. Is anything like this possible?

If the laptop has a working network connection you should be able to
boot it from an install floppy and install Linux over the network.
That's how we did it in the good old days.

When I were a lad....


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From: Unruh on 13 Jan 2008 21:42
Bernard Peek <bap(a)shrdlu.com> writes:

>jasee wrote:
>> I've got an old laptop without a cd drive or a floppy. I can take the drive
>> out and partition it and copy a linux iso to one of the partitions, is there
>> some way of putting grub or lilo somewhere so I can start and install the
>> iso to the hard disk. Is anything like this possible?

>If the laptop has a working network connection you should be able to
>boot it from an install floppy and install Linux over the network.
>That's how we did it in the good old days.

He says he has no floppy.



From: jasee on 14 Jan 2008 04:48
Bernard Peek wrote:
> jasee wrote:
>> I've got an old laptop without a cd drive or a floppy. I can take
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> the drive out and partition it and copy a linux iso to one of the
>> partitions, is there some way of putting grub or lilo somewhere so I
>> can start and install the iso to the hard disk. Is anything like
>> this possible?
>
> If the laptop has a working network connection you should be able to
> boot it from an install floppy and install Linux over the network.
> That's how we did it in the good old days.

No floppy (it would be easy otherwise)



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