I just recieved a free laptop, with winNT4.0 on it at the current moment, it's a Toshiba T3600CT, I have a few questions about installing slackware, I can currently boot the bare.i boot disk; But right now I'm sort of clueless into what I should do now. I have hordes of floppies but I don't know how I should go about installing this via floppy, any suggestions?

Can you do an NFS install?

Lyle

Sadly but no, on the other laptop I can but I'm primarily focused on this once (Since the battery dies on the other one in a second).

I looked in some of the Slackware documention; I didn't see anything about installing the main distribution from floppies. There still might be a way.

I did notice that ZipSlack can be installed from floppies. In fact, there is a directory under the zipslack directory called split that has the entire zipslack distribution split into floppy-sized chunks.

Lyle

Yeah I've seen, the only problem is they are in zip format. The laptop doesn't even have winzip on it, lol. Looks like I'm at a loss. I really don't want the entire distribution on it, I just want the command line actually. But I'm not giving up yet, I'm no where close to it, thanks for at least trying to help =)

Er...perhaps you should put WinZip on it then...

Well the problem is, I tried installing winzip self extractor, but cannot create a temporary directory since I do not have admin rights.

Note: I recieved this laptop.

I did not purchase, that's why I'm kinda stuck.

I know older version of slack could be installed by floppy, also Debian base can be installed by floppy. I did install Debian Slink (2.1) a LONG time ago that way myself.

But the base install doesn't give you much. You would still want to get online and install the rest across the network. You don't mention if it has a network card, does it?

Other than that, wouldn't you just erase NT to make linux partitions anyway? Why wory about administrative rights if you are just going to repartition and erase everything?

You could just put on DOS and pkzip on one partition, load zipslack and then install from there to a linux partition. I think. Haven't done it myself.

Google about installing linux on a laptop without a cdrom, there may be more step by step instructions available, though they may be old.