[ale] Remote boot/install on old notebook, no floppy/CD/ethernet?

[Dan Lambert]

If you can figure out how to attach a CD that will be bootable, you 
could do that. Otherwise, it might be that the best methdology would be 
to use a PCMCIA network card. 3COM or Xircom cards can be had without 
too much trouble.

What make and model laptop is it? I don't remember seeing that in the 
original post.

Dan


Christopher Fowler wrote:

>On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 09:55, mute wonder wrote:
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>>*PC to PC*:  The notebook has a serial DB9, printer DB25, and one USB
>>ports.  Would it be viable to connect it to another computer and
>>remotely repartition the notebook, install stuff and so on?
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>Will not work.  I can think of know way you can configure linux to a
>target disk via a serial cable.
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>>*Get removable drives*:  There's another connector labeled for an
>>external floppy or CD drive.  It looks most like a SCSI VHDCI68, but
>>that's a half-educated guess. I know little about SCSI, and have less
>>experience with them.  So, any information regarding external SCSI
>>floppy or CD drives would be good. 
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>Too much trouble.  You'll need to look on ebay.
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>I would remove the drive and somehow get Linux on it.  Does this
>notebook have a network port?  
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>What I've done in the past was to copy the linux kernel and initrd off
>an FC2 network install CD.  I then create a grub entry.  What this
>allows me to do is select "Reinstall" at bootup.  This requires a
>network interface to work. 
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