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11-28-2009

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How to install linux in a system without cdrom, usb boot, floppy, other OS?

Hello to everyone,

I am new to linux and I want to move to this system after bad experiences with windows.
I have also a particular problem. An old laptop is probably able to handle just linux at this point of its life.

The cdrom is gone, the bios doesn't have usb boot support, there is no floppy or pxe network boot ability, so I was wondering what other way I can have to install linux on a barebone hd (nothing on it).

The only Idea I had was to copy some files on the hd via a ide cable adapter, connecting the laptop hd to the mobo of a desktop. I did the same in the past to install xp: I used msdos 7 to boot the machine and then launch the xp setup from withing the hd (copied before the installation files).

So my question is, can I do the same with linux? in such case, of course I will have a hd formatted with fat32 to boot in msdos, and what files should I copy on this partition to launch the installation?

If this is not the best path to follow and some guru here can advise me a better way I am looking for his helps. I look on the net but everywhere at least they require a previous operative system on it or some kind of boot support (usb, cdrom, floppy...)

Thanks again

highkftj

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bootcdflopcp

BOOTCD(1)							   bootcd utils 							 BOOTCD(1)

NAME

       bootcdflopcp - copy changes made after booting from bootcd to floppy

SYNOPSIS

       bootcdflopcp [-v] [-d <device>]

DESCRIPTION

       bootcdflopcp  will  copy changes made in ram to the floppy disk.  bootcdflopcp will be available as soon as your system is running from cd.
       The floppy has to have a filesystem already. (See mke2fs or mformat).  If you have to boot from floppy, because your cd-drive or bios  does
       not  support  to  boot from cd a msdos filesystem is used to run syslinux.  When bootcdflopcp is called it searches for differences between
       RAM and CD.  For each different file, it checks if it is listed in the files ignore, remove or change on floppy. If it is listed in  change
       it  will  be  saved to change.tgz on floppy. If it is listed in remove the file will be removed from ram next boot time. If it is listed in
       ignore it will be ignored. If it is not listed at all you will be interactively asked what to do.

OPTIONS

       -v  The option "-v" (verbose) adds messages on running.

       -d <device>
	   Use another device instead of "/dev/fd0" to save changes.

FILES

       FLOPPY:/remove
	      If a file is listed here the file will be deleted from ram next boot time.

       FLOPPY:/change
	      If a file is listed here bootcdflopcp will save it in change.tgz.

       FLOPPY:/ignore
	      If a file is listed here bootcdflopcp will ignore changes to this file.

       FLOPPY:/change.tgz
	      Here all changed files are stored in gzipped tar format.

SEE ALSO

       bootcd(1), bootcd2disk(1), bootcdwrite(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Bernd Schumacher <bernd.schumacher@hp.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

							   Wed Feb 23 00:00:00 EET 2000 						 BOOTCD(1)