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What kind of machine are you putting this on? Is this an older machine? If it's an older one you might want to consider running an older version of *BSD on it, if you want to just use the base system utilities that is. If the machine has some opportunity for any other kind of usage, and just doesn't have a CD, you might want to consider installing over NFS via Slackware. Or you could use ZipSlack.
Distribution: Gentoo Hardened using OpenRC not Systemd
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Either do a Frugal install like I am trying to do now, or do use bootfloppy.img from here http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...small/current/ and copy it to a floppy using dd. Goto the wiki pages from www.damnsmalllinux.org and start reading about it. The floppy is for booting your computer from it. Then you will need the cd to install from, but you won't be booting from that.
The point is, my laptop doesn't have a CD Drive only Floppy drive.
I have got as far as booting from the floppy, it then requires the CD, which I can't give it.
I have tried putting the Knoppix file off the CD onto my hard disk (via JASP 34 floppies)using another machine, but it still wants the CD.
I need the whole thing on floppies (floppy images), or better still a Frugal install as Floppy Images.
A related problem is finding a partition utility which will create, delete, resize, move and format Windows and Linux partitions. So far I've tried Fdisk, Gdisk, Partition Manager, but these can,t move or resize, and Partition Logic will not load on my laptop, it oscillates between loading Windows, and loading Partition Logic for ever.
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