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Old 11-16-2004, 11:46 AM   #15 (permalink)
Dragonlich
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Originally Posted by littlebighead
Sounds like you might not have a CD drive with your laptop. I was in such a situation, so I opted to copy Red Hat ISOs onto a FAT partition and created a bootable install floppy. But then again, 1.3GB is pretty tiny, so maybe your best option is to get a minimal system up and running with networking, and then apt-get or whatever you need to do to get other components installed.
I solved that problem by using the "network install" option. I simply booted from a couple of floppies, and downloaded the rest. It takes some time, but it works.
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