best way to install linux to a laptop

[Brent Harding]

I'm not sure if thelaptop that both my friend and I will be putting it on
has one, but mine personal laptop doesn't. The secondary machine has a NIC
plugged in to a jack that goes on the main network there, which you need to
log in to novell to use. I don't have control of their CD tower to do this.
I was thinking the idea of a hub, but we don't own the network, and they'd
actually rather run another line from wherever the wiring inside the jack
leads to, it's a district wide network, I think.
At 07:31 AM 10/19/00 -0600, you wrote:
>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.
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>I hope that this doesn't muddy the waters any.
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>BTW, Bill, WB2FLW, walked me through such an install just last weekend.
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>Stephen Dawes B.A. B.Sc.
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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
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>> 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
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>> >
>> >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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