Michael,
DSL can be loaded by floppy. or by USB. I happen to
have a Toshiba sattelite that I currently have Debian
on.. it took me all day and 30 floppies to get it in..
but I did get it in.. and it works and works... and
works. DSL is probably my favorite disto. Go to the
DSL site and then go to the forums, do a search for
floppy installs.. you will find info there.. also the
people who use this distro are very friendly penguin
sorts and more than willing to help.. your not the
only person to have had that issue.. !
Mark
--- Macy1 Hallock <macy1@hallock.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Macy Hallock (personal email account) Medina, OH -
> Lutz, FL
> Tel 813-632-2988 Cell 813-493-8899 Email macy1 (at)
> hallock.net
>
>
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