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OK, guys, I've got an old 486 notebook lying around, on which I wish
to install LINUX. I need some help. It has no CDROM drive, or
floppy...I need to take out the hard drive to install a new O/S. Not a
big deal, really...it's easy to get in and out.
Now comes the hard part. With Windows I could easily make the
drive bootable, copy the install files over, and run SETUP.EXE on
the laptop itself. I *know* how to do that.
Can I do something similar with LINUX? I'd like the LINUX setup
routine to auto-detect (I hope) most of the built in hardware, rather
than having to manually set everything up.
No, I don't have a friend from whom I can borrow a PCMCIA
CDROM drive..no I don't have a network connection available, etc.
Just what I've described.
Thanks for any hints, guys...I've done the LINUX thing on my desktops,
but never on such a limited machine.
-- Chuck Knight
P.S. In case it makes a difference, it's an old Toshiba Portege T3400
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