Installing Debian from hd

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi Tom,

	I don't know about current debian versions and alternate methods of installation that they provide...

 but I have installed debian on a laptop with no floppy or bootable CD. What I did was to remove the laptop HDD and  put it into a desktop machine with a micro-IDE to IDE interface adapter. I did the installation using the desktop machine's floppy/CD including the ethernet support for the laptop machine. After installing the basics I put the hddd back into the laptop and finished the installation  through the net connection. The microIDE-IDE adapter was very inexpensive, about $5CDN i think.

	HTH,

	-terry

On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 09:28:44AM -0500, Tom Moore wrote:
> Hi guys.
> I have a laptop that I'd like to install Debian on that does not a cd or
> floppy drive.
> What I have is a dos partition and fee space for a Linux partition.
> The installers I've seen for Speakup are either floppy or cd images.
> With the newer installers are their .tgz files like there use to be with
> Potato type installers?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> 
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