Installing Debian from hd

[Tom Moore]

I looked a bit around the Debian site nad found hd images for installing
Debian.
They have a ram disk image that's about 9 megs in size. Tried using the
kernel off of the Sarge boot disk to load the system but it didn't work.
I wonder what size ramdisk their using.
Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry D. Cudney" <terry at wasaga.dyns.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: Installing Debian from hd


> 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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