You can run the linux install from msdos mode. Most linuxes come with provision for this at least I know that SuSE which I use does and I have used it and it works like a charm. On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Raymond Blum wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 22:29:00 -0400 > From: Raymond Blum <raymond@askit.com> > To: List Linux Net <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu> > Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.portable > Subject: Challenging install > > Hi > I have a Thinkpad 701C, the butterfly, with 24 MB of RAM and a 500 MB > HD. I want to get Windoze 95 off of this machine and Linux onto it ASAP. > I think that there must be a way to do it but I am stumped and hope that > someone here can suggest a strategy. > > The machine has no floppy. I can (in Windoze) get a CD-ROM and a ZIP > drive mounted via an Adaptec SlimSCSI PCMCIA card. (I had to download > the drivers via the 14.4 modem) > > I do have a Linksys Ethernet PCMCIA card which I could download the > drivers for, as I did for the SCSI card. > > I can not run loadlin from windoze, but if I bring the machine up in > DOS mode, I can not get to the SCSI peripherals (and the CD) > > So... how would YOU run the Linux install, without locating and buying > a floppy for this machine on eBay? > > TIA > ---Raymond > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Noah ksemat@eahd.or.ug - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
