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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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mountpoint

MOUNTPOINT(1)							   User Commands						     MOUNTPOINT(1)

NAME

       mountpoint - see if a directory is a mountpoint

SYNOPSIS

       mountpoint [-q] [-d] directory

       mountpoint -x device

DESCRIPTION

       mountpoint checks if the directory is mentioned in the /proc/self/mountinfo file.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Print help and exit.

       -q, --quiet
	      Be quiet - don't print anything.

       -d, --fs-devno
	      Print major/minor device number of the filesystem on stdout.

       -x, --devno
	      Print major/minor device number of the blockdevice on stdout.

EXIT STATUS

       Zero if the directory is a mountpoint, non-zero if not.

AUTHOR

       Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

ENVIRONMENT

       LIBMOUNT_DEBUG=0xffff
	      enables debug output.

NOTES

       The  util-linux	mountpoint  implementation  was  written from scratch for libmount. The original version for sysvinit suite was written by
       Miquel van Smoorenburg.

SEE ALSO

       mount(8)

AVAILABILITY

       The mountpoint command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

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