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panman

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Registered: 2007-08-06

Posts: 2

floppy drive install to portable USB HDD & Floppy to boot from

title pretty much says it all. I have a resonably old computer that cant boot off of usb. and i want to install it to a usb hdd. I dont have a cd drive so i will have to use the floppy network install (i did this before).  This is the only distro that I know of that has a floppy install. i have searched but the wiki search brings up like 500 results that are irrelevant. so in short this is what i need:
a floppy to be able to boot from a usb hdd
a guide that can show me how to install from a network install floppy setup to a usb hdd

if i remember correctly, the floppy network install is much much different than the cd install.

rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: floppy drive install to portable USB HDD & Floppy to boot from

dont know if it will be able to install to usb but
image can be found here
ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux … ux/images/

floppy install
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Off … py_Install

may be you can install arch to usb via a different pc move usb to desired machine boot floppy.img chroot run grub/lilo onto another floppy disk

please update us on your progress
good luck

panman

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Registered: 2007-08-06

Posts: 2

Re: floppy drive install to portable USB HDD & Floppy to boot from

i keep getting an error that says "one or mre packages failed to download" and i have tried all the sites

rayjgu3

Member

From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: floppy drive install to portable USB HDD & Floppy to boot from

which package?
is it no longer supported?
can you find it in AUR?