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Re: Colgate install on WinBook FX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Greene)
Mon Nov 11 21:46:35 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:42:31 +0000 ( )
From: Steve Greene <sgreene@washsq.com>
To: Neil Carlson <carlson@math.purdue.edu>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <3287773D.2781@math.purdue.edu>
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On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Neil Carlson wrote:
> A colleague has a new Winbook FX laptop that he'd like to install
> linux on. Unfortunately, the floppy and CDROM can't be plugged in
> at the same time. Any relatively easy way of getting Colgate
> installed on this machine?
A couple of ways I can think of:
1. Buy or borrow a PCMCIA ethernet card; mount the cdrom on another *nix
system (Linux will do nicely) and export it via ftp or nfs; connect the
laptop to the LAN and do a ftp or nfs install.
2. I read elsewhere in this list that the next batch of RH 4.0 CDROMS may
be bootable. In that case, you may be able to do everything you need
without floppies.
I'd go for #1.
FWIW, I have an older Winboox XP. I bought an external SCSI CD-ROM for
it, so at least I don't have to decide floppy or CD. I'm a little
diappointed they went that route - I *think* some of the other systems
with swappable CDROMS do not force a choice between floppy or CD (they
may make you pull the battery, but hey, who said you could have it all
and still fit in a briefcase and weigh under 8 pounds?)
Steve
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