[NBLUG/talk] How Low Can We Go?

[Stephen Cilley]

Ok, so, long story short I cought a glimpse of the LCD
turning on out of the corner of my eye and realized
that it only works if you push up pretty hard on the
cable.  So I heald it in place while it read the three
debain boot disks and I'm well on my way to a net
install.  Thanks everyone.

Stephen

--- Kyle Rankin <kyle at nblug.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:53:39AM -0700, Stephen
> Cilley wrote:
> > Thanks for all of your input.
> > I got back from HSC about 30 minutes ago, I got
> > floppies and a pcmcia 10/100 card (I needed one
> > anyway.)  I tried to get one of the bootdisks to
> run
> > the lappy and it turns out that the floppy drive
> is
> > bad.  I couldn't even get the read LED to come on
> at
> > boot or under windows.  I'm fairly certain it's
> just
> > dead.  But Windows 95 has absolutely no problem
> with
> > the NIC so I can get any data I want on there
> under
> > the windows environment.  Other than that, it
> doesn't
> > look like it wants to swallow my pcmcia USB
> interface,
> > so it's my only input method.
> > So how do I do it now, with just a network
> connection?
> > 
> > Stephen
> > 
> 
> The best way would be to drop back by HSC and check
> out their selection of
> used laptop floppy drives and see if you can find
> one that works. Otherwise
> you'll have to resort to the
>
pull-laptop-hard-drive-and-install-from-other-computer
> method, which will
> require an adapter so you can hook up the 2.5"
> laptop IDE connection to a
> standard IDE port.
> 
> -- 
> Kyle Rankin
> NBLUG President
> The North Bay Linux Users Group
> http://nblug.org
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