[olug] Small old laptop challenge

[Jay Swackhamer]

If you cant boot from CD, or get it on the network, then I've always  
just pulled the hard drive, installed it through a newer desktop PC,  
then put it back in the laptop.

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Jay Swackhamer
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Quoting Bill Brush <bbrush at gmail.com>:

> I think functionally it's a standard floppy, IBM just made a special
> cable/interface to connect it to.   Remember this came out originally
> with DOS/Win 3.x, so it had to be pretty standard or it wouldn't work
> with the OS.
>
>
> Bill
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Abraham Serafino
> <abrahams at teknohazard.com> wrote:
>> If it's not an IDE floppy interface you might need some drivers for it or
>> you might have to recompile your kernel after you install.
>>
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