michael hast wrote:
> Hey, everybody,
> I've got an old, beat-up, and yet fully functional Toshiba Satelite
> 105cs that I've been looking for a use for. The other day, I was
> playing with DSL--the 50mb OS--and it hit me! That's the answer! The
> only problem is, it's got no cd rom. It only has a 3.5 on it. I'm
> trying to figure out how to load it with DSL and possibly another
> couple of small apps like Kstars so I can take it out with the
> telescope. If anybody has any insight or experience in this area, I'm
> all ears. If I'm better off pitching the thing and starting from
> scratch, so be it, but I hope that there is a low-cost way to make
> this old notebook useful. Thanks, Michael
I can't speak for DSL, but I've loaded Fedora Core 1 on a laptop (and a
few other
computers) without cdrom using a the boot floppy, a 3C589 ethernet card
(the one
PCMCIA card supported by almost any release and distro). You can perform
an "accross the wire" install via http or ftp easily if you use a
not-overloaded mirror
site.
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