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[ILUG] Installing Debian using Floppies

[ILUG] Installing Debian using Floppies

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue Oct 12 21:05:10 IST 2004


Quoting Chris Higgins (chris.higgins at darach.ie):

> [0] how you do that if you don't have network or cdrom access is the
> challenging bit

On some antique laptops, the least-bother way around that problem is to
extract the HD, temporarily connect it to a desktop box, perform
installation, and move the HD back.  (You'll often need to re-do the
bootloader.)




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