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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
