Please Help! Installing without a 3.5" floppy drive
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Please Help! Installing without a 3.5" floppy drive
Hi, just received an old laptop but it has no floppy drive and buying one is out of the question, so i would like to know if there is any way to install linux without a boot disk
yeah, nowadays the Linux distributions don't even come with floppy boot disks...only with bootable CD's, so I guess it ought to work for ya, , unless it doesn't have a CD-rom either...then ehmm...I hope you got Ethernet or you're gonna spend a lot of time downloading the software to install it, hehe.
Hey thanx for the help, shoot2kill. And banelion, a floppy drive for this particular laptop is around £80 due to it not being made anymore and on a paperround salery of around £12ish a week this is a long time to wait for a shitty piece of hardware. (by the way im only 15, so dont take the piss)
I have a rather new ( it's 2 month old , so tecnicaly it's out of date ) dell laptop , and NO FLOPPY DRIVE
this is a major problem, i am trying to install drake 9.0
the unit wont boot the cd , i don't know why , it does with everything else.
it has no floppy drive, the floppyimg program in the images folder in the cd1 doesn't help , it just tells me i have no floppy drive..
is there any way to fool the computer , and burn a Boot cd with the "boot floppy " data on it ?
cheers for any help..
( oh and no , i ain't buying a floppy drive either , outdated, noisey and just bloody slow. and a £60 for a usb floopy that probably wouldn't be bootable it's just not worth it. )
you guys should always buy the highest quality blank CD's...trust me it makes a difference.
I actually have come across Blank CD's, that have expiration Dates!!!, it's true....after a certain date, if they haven't been burnt....they'll go bad...
it's those REALLY, cheap ones......the Silver ones that have no stiker....heheh, like 100 disks, for like 9 dollars.
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