best way to install linux to a laptop

[Stephen Dawes]

Does the laptop in question have a network card.  If so, then I would
installing over a network.  This would eliminate the need to swap the CD-ROM
and floppy drives.  By having the CD copied, or possibly mounted on another
machine, you only need to do a few simple thing when starting the install
over a network, and the rest is as though you are doing everything with in
the same computer.

I hope that this doesn't muddy the waters any.

BTW, Bill, WB2FLW, walked me through such an install just last weekend.




Stephen Dawes B.A. B.Sc.
Web Business Office, The City of Calgary
PHONE:  (403) 268-5527. FAX: (403) 268-6423
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Brent Harding
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 5:38 PM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: best way to install linux to a laptop
>
>
> The trouble is how to use utils on the root disk when you have to
> physically remove the floppy drive to get the CD in?
> At 06:06 PM 10/18/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >Buddy.  You don't need the base tarball.  It's on the cd.  You can mount
> >the cd with all of the tools on the root disk.  If you are
> conserned about
> >the keymap that's a pretty easy thing to fix.  For some of us the 15m
> >download is a lot.
> >
> >
> >FC
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Buddy Brannan wrote:
> >
> >> Also remember you can get a $0.99 (or maybe it's back to
> $1.89, I haven't
> >> checked) CD of any distribution at
> >> www.linuxmall.com
> >>
> >> It might be more if you get a multi-disk distro. Like maybe $2 or $3 or
> >> something.
> >>
> >> And Linuxmall has actually done some good by making their site
> easier to
> >> use if you're blind. At least, last time I was there it was.
> >>
> >> Bear in mind though that if you go the CD route, you'll still
> need to get
> >> the boot and root disks and the base.tgz file from the Speakup
> FTP site for
> >> Debian. I think I might play with making a Debian CD with the modified
> >> base2-2.tgz file myself.
> >> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV
> >> Voice mail: 877-791-5298
> >> Email: davros at ycardz.com
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