[olug] Small old laptop challenge

Bill Brush bbrush at gmail.com
Mon May 4 16:58:46 UTC 2009


On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Sam Tetherow <tetherow at shwisp.net> wrote:
> There was no support for external CD boot on the 701c.  It also had no
> internal networking.   So I don't think there was a way to do PXE boot.


Ok, as a test, I can confirm that it will boot to a DOS floppy.  At
least Sam has saved me looking for a CD drive for it in the scrap bin.
 It looks like my options are either floppy install or an installer
that can find a PC card NIC and a network install.

Bill



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