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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Name: Terry D. Cudney Phone: (705) 422-0039 E-mail: terry at wasaga.dyns.net Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool. Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
