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Well I can plug my laptop hard drive into my desktop and copy files from a cd to it. I dont think I could just install an operating system like that could I (because the hardware would be different when I put it back into the laptop, right?).
Or you could perhaps "create" a virtual laptop similar to yours, with access to your PC's CDROM and (plugged-in) laptop drive, using a virtual PC software, such as Bochs...
Distribution: Debian 3.0 (Woody) SuSE 9.1 and Tiny
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No CDROM for Installing
I have had the same problem, more than once.
I've solved them by hitting up my friends and surplus parts houses until I have both a 100 MB Zip drive and a CDROM which connect through the parallel port. Total investment in both is $15 (US).
DamnSmall Linux works fine. So does the 24 floppy Debian net install, if you have hardware to access a network of any speed with a CDROM connected to it. Using the Debian floppy set, it sees the parallel port Zip drive as if it were a cdrom. I'm sure there are other distros, as well, though I admit I haven't kept up with it.
I have one 486 lappie that I have DamnSmall installed on. Full gui (IceWM) plenty of apps and space for some files with only a 500 MB hard drive! You can do this, if you're just willing to tinker with stuff. I did, and no one is going to call me a Linux ace who knows me. That's my favorite machine for text entry, by the way, and I use it a lot.
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