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On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 21:53 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm in the process of sorting out an old laptop for a friend. It's a > few years old and the DVD drive doesn't work on it. It also doesn't > support booting from USB and the network adaptor is a Xircom PCMCIA card > which isn't supported by either Etherboot or gPXE. > > Now I'm a bit stuck. I can boot from floppy no problem, I've even tried > booting Grub which works, but then Grub (at least Grub version 1) > doesn't see the USB stick I have attached to the machine (I figured if I > can boot grub, I can then boot the kernel from a USB stick). That > however doesn't work. > > I've done a bit of searching and found that Debian 4 has a couple of > floppy boot images, I wondered though if there was anything for Debian > 5? (I'd rather not install Debian 4 then Debian 5 over the top of it). > > Ta, > > Rob > > > Can you take the Hard disk out? I have a small adapter IDE to Laptop disk which I use to backup lappys to DVD Can you install a bootable image that way? Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) reprieved repressed(possibly!Definitely!) Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html