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Somewhat related. I have a 12 year old laptop with a broken CDROM. Is there a way to load a lightweight linux using floppy disks or some other method?
by tocomment 16y ago
Somewhat related. I have a 12 year old laptop with a broken CDROM. Is there a way to load a lightweight linux using floppy disks or some other method?
- almost 16y agoIf it has a USB port you can use either an external CDROM drive or a USB key drive. If it has a network port then you can make a network boot floppy quite easily. This just contains enough to get the system booting off of an image retrieved from a TFTP server over the network.
- tocomment 16y agoSo no network port. I can't figure out a way to tell it to boot from a USB thumb drive. It doesn't list that option in the BIOS. Would it still let me boot from an external CD ROM even though the BIOS doesn't mention USB? Maybe I could buy one. Otherwise, any other thoughts?
- almost 16y agoMaybe, it's probably more likely it can boot from a USB CD-ROM than from a USD key. But I have no idea how much more likely. Otherwise, you could maybe try a PCMCIA network card, assuming the laptop supports that.