- Help: instal any OS with only working 3.5 floppy drive...
- Posted by Zax on November 16th, 2005
have a p3 1 ghz toshiba (4 yrs old) on which the cd drive 'died' as I was
reinstalling XP from recovery cd's. the floppy drive works, the hard drive
is formatted.
seems my only options are to install any OS (ideally 98SE) using the 3.5"
drive or use the laptop as an expensive night light.....
any ideas?
is there a bootable version of linux that will work off a floppy?
thanks.
- Posted by William P.N. Smith on November 17th, 2005
"Zax" <cacofonix@junkthisbit.mail.com> wrote:
Why can't you yank the hard drive out and put the install files on it,
build the XP install floppies on another machine, and make everything
work that way?
Or get an external CD-Rom drive, or fix the one you have? You are
gonna want a CD-Rom drive on any machine today...
- Posted by budgie on November 17th, 2005
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:24:53 -0000, "Zax" <cacofonix@junkthisbit.mail.com>
wrote:
You should be able to get somewhere with a floppy and a NIC. What you MAY have
to do is install an earlier O/S just to get the NIC supported, then copy the CD
to the HDD and install from there. That route certainly works with a full
instal version of the O/S on the CD.
- Posted by Michael Wileman on November 17th, 2005
In <qimnn1dq746mjfh5bsfelgq1hcsk88mc8f@4ax.com> budgie <me@privacy.net> writes:
Create a DOS boot floppy with NDIS network drivers on a
single floppy. You'll have to edit the network
configuration files to match your NIC, but that isn't a big
deal. Copy the installation files from the Win install disk
from a shared CD drive on a machine on the network. Then
install from the hard drive.
Mike
