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| Th at (no spam) would.be.telling... |
 Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:23 pm |
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I am trying to install SUSE 10.3 from DVD onto an old Pentium 2
laptop. This laptp has no internal floppy or DVD drive and will not
boot from USB. I can boot from the hard disc or CD only.
I have a bootable CD which gets me to a DOS prompt and I can then
browse the DVD over USB. But I can't seem to get the installation to
start. Everything says it need windows to run.
I have tried copying files onto the HDD and booting from that but
nothing works. The fact is I'm new to linux and have no clue what to
copy or what to run. Please help.
TIA.
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| F8BOE... |
| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:27 am |
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Th at (no spam) would.be.telling wrote:
Quote: I am trying to install SUSE 10.3 from DVD onto an old Pentium 2
laptop. This laptp has no internal floppy or DVD drive and will not
boot from USB. I can boot from the hard disc or CD only.
I have a bootable CD which gets me to a DOS prompt and I can then
browse the DVD over USB. But I can't seem to get the installation to
start. Everything says it need windows to run.
I have tried copying files onto the HDD and booting from that but
nothing works. The fact is I'm new to linux and have no clue what to
copy or what to run. Please help.
TIA.
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Why not get the CD?
http://www.opensuse.org/
New to Linux? Try this:
http://www.mandriva.com/en
and choose the install CD's for your old HW:
ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandriva.com/MandrivaLinux/official/iso/2008.1 |
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| Dr. Deb... |
| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:03 am |
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Th at (no spam) would.be.telling wrote:
Quote: I am trying to install SUSE 10.3 from DVD onto an old Pentium 2
laptop. This laptp has no internal floppy or DVD drive and will not
boot from USB. I can boot from the hard disc or CD only.
I have a bootable CD which gets me to a DOS prompt and I can then
browse the DVD over USB. But I can't seem to get the installation to
start. Everything says it need windows to run.
I have tried copying files onto the HDD and booting from that but
nothing works. The fact is I'm new to linux and have no clue what to
copy or what to run. Please help.
TIA.
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I agree with F8BOE's comments, but would add that for that system you might
find that PCLinuxOS 2008-MiniMe, which is a Mandriva spinoff, works
better.
http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/PCLinuxOS-MiniME-Download-11665.html
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| propman... |
| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:10 pm |
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"Th at (no spam) would.be.telling" <Th at (no spam) would.be.telling> wrote in
news:91jja4h2e20s2jhggrtl1h05nvp4jn075r at (no spam) 4ax.com:
Quote: I am trying to install SUSE 10.3 from DVD onto an old Pentium 2
laptop. This laptp has no internal floppy or DVD drive and will not
boot from USB. I can boot from the hard disc or CD only.
You can download a 10.3 iso file from which to make a liveCD (bootable)
which contains the option of installing openSuse from the following
location:
http://software.opensuse.org/old/10.3
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I have tried copying files onto the HDD and booting from that but
nothing works. The fact is I'm new to linux and have no clue what to
copy or what to run. Please help.
You might also be interested in looking at the following site which
compares various linux distro's (hardware requirements etc):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions
A lot of the linux distro's have a LiveCD version (the various *ubuntu
flavours for example) for downloading/trying before installing
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