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. > >I hope that this doesn't muddy the waters any. > >BTW, Bill, WB2FLW, walked me through such an install just last weekend. > > > > >Stephen Dawes B.A. B.Sc. >Web Business Office, The City of Calgary >PHONE: (403) 268-5527. FAX: (403) 268-6423 >E-MAIL ADDRESS: sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca > > > > >> -----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 >> >> >> 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 >> > >> > >> >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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Speakup mailing list >> >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> >> > >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >Speakup mailing list >> >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >
