Guest SiNeX Posted November 12, 2002 Report Share Posted November 12, 2002 I have a Windows XP computer and a laptop with a broken cd-rom. I want to install Mandrake 9.0 onto the laptop (with NIC) , how can I do this without using the CD-Rom? I have no network setup and the laptop hardrive is formatted and clean. TIA Alistair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted November 13, 2002 Report Share Posted November 13, 2002 yes thats a bit of a problem. you have a working floppy on the laptop? if not your stuffed i think. I have no idea how you would do it under XP but if you had linux on you pc you could share the install cds via nfs and use a boot floopy to install onto the laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SiNeX Posted November 14, 2002 Report Share Posted November 14, 2002 Yeah, I have a working floppy disk on the machine and a cd-rom that does not work. I could in theory network both machines together and do a network install of windows on the other machine. But I would prefer only Linux on that machine. Is there a Linux on a floppy disk? If so maybe I could install that and get it working then network connect to the XP machine and network install Mandrake 9.0? TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted November 14, 2002 Report Share Posted November 14, 2002 I've read this solution once on MandrakeForum. I did not try, so make sure you know what you're doing: 1- Take the hard drive from your laptop, 2- Remove the hard drives from your PC, and put the laptop's hard drive instead. 3- Install Linux on the PC with the laptop in mind: select the packages to make sure that all packages needed by your laptop's hardware is installed (eg: PCMCIA); also: choose a console boot, not a graphical boot (technically speaking, boot in runlevel 3). 4- Put back the hard drives in their proper places. 5- Boot the laptop, login as root, and reconfigure your X server. 6- Start X (startx) and use Mandrake Control Center to make sure all other hardware is well configured. 7- If all is well up to this point, you can put your laptop in graphical boot mode (technically speaking: runlevel 5 at boot). Good luck. If you don't feel this is the solution for you, go and check what is available here: http://old.lwn.net/Distributions/ Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SiNeX Posted November 14, 2002 Report Share Posted November 14, 2002 I thought about doing that but when I took my laptop HD apart I found that the connectors are not the same as my PC so I couldn't use that one in the PC. Is it possible to install a floppy distribution and then connect to an ftp server to download the rpms to my HD and then install from there? I have been looking at Trinux to do this. Would this work? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted November 21, 2002 Report Share Posted November 21, 2002 If you can network the two computers this link may help re doing a network install: http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...rk+installation Also, you could try doing a hard drive install by transferring the install CDs to a Fat partition on your laptop and following the procedure here: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/ihdinst.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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