installing on laptop without boot

[Michael R Head]

On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 10:03 +0100, Sir Daz wrote:
> im after trying ubuntu on my old laptop (24mb ram, p133). but the 
> problem is that i wont boot either from cd or floppy, and i cant get 
> into the bios to chanage anything.
> 
> Ive tried starting the setup on my pc, then when it comes to the 
> restart, putting the hard drive back into the laptop. It booted, but 
> with errors and it wouldnt load.
> 
> Is there any otherway of getting it running on the laptop? Any tricks or 
> something? Or is it about time i throw it out the window?

If you have a real DOS prompt available (via DOS 6.22 or Win95/98), you
should be able to use loadlin to bootstrap an install.

http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/win2linstall.html

mike

> 
> Thanks,
> Darren
> 
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