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Will not boot from PCMCIA CDROM - System does not detect PCMCIA devices w/out OS drivers
WILL boot from USB Floppy... HOWEVER after loading ONE Linux bootdisk (Debian, Vectorlinux, etc), the floppy drive vanishes from the installer's sight and the installer continues to prompt for the second disk on the new nonexistent drive
Has PXE boot support, although I'm oblivious to this
I am desperate. Windows 2000 chugs too slow on this tiny thing; I'm dying for my XFCE 4 :
Debian's install floppies include cd drivers. Not sure if you're trying to use those or not.
Yeah the problem is however, after the first floppy (boot.img) is finished, it prompts for the next disk but fails to recognize the USB floppy drive from which it booted from initially.
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Never tried it myself so I do not know how well it works.
Hello again all! I'm back again, a few months later. After my previous posts, I had abandoned Ubuntu + XFCE4 because it felt too sluggish on the notebook.
I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with distros using LOADIN from DOS.
If you have, please let me know; I've specifically been trying to get Slackware installed since it's supposed to run amazing on ancient hardware.
Have you tried to pop the HDD, stick it in a usb caddy and load a network install image? I have a 6 year old Dell that I run Debian Sarge on, The CDROM boots so I use an ISO and install from the net. I wonder how hard it would be to rebuild the ISO boot image so that it boots from the HDD instead of the CD?
Have you tried to pop the HDD, stick it in a usb caddy and load a network install image? I have a 6 year old Dell that I run Debian Sarge on, The CDROM boots so I use an ISO and install from the net. I wonder how hard it would be to rebuild the ISO boot image so that it boots from the HDD instead of the CD?
Nah, this is a little 10" Fujitsu touchscreen, I don't wanna take anything apart
I remember trying to get it to boot from LOADLIN, but as many other distros, I could not. (Probably due to the limited memory and whatnot of the notebook itself)
Distribution: elive,sidux,xp,pclinuxos super gamer, mandriva 2007
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Just tried it myself and failed for the same reasons I think. I'm going to try these instructions http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.p...g_without_a_CD to install vector on my old sony vaio, they worked with a little tweaking when I installed damn small linux.
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