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| From | Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.hardware |
| Subject | Re: What linux will run on my laptop? |
| Date | 2019-02-11 07:02 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <q3r6m1$g86$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <b1725816-2a2b-4acd-a3f6-4a5c70232706@googlegroups.com> |
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:01:26 -0800, wexfordpress wrote: > Just bought a refurbished HP laptop. It lacks a CDROM drive. Slackware > won't boot from any of the 4 usb drives. What boot options do you have in the CMOS setup? If you lack a cdrom and really are unable to boot from USB the only option left (assuming that the laptop also lacks a floppy) is PXE boot from the network interface. There are also exteranal USB CD/DVD-drives, but then again they require that your laptop support booting by USB. If all boot options fails on the laptop you will have to take the HD out and connect it to some IDE/SATA-USB converter. With such a thing you will be able to connect the HD to some other PC and you can use something like qemu to install Slackware on the HD. regards Henrik
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What linux will run on my laptop? wexfordpress <culletonpl@gmail.com> - 2019-02-10 13:01 -0800
Re: What linux will run on my laptop? root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2019-02-10 21:13 +0000
Re: What linux will run on my laptop? Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2019-02-11 07:02 +0000
Re: What linux will run on my laptop? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2019-02-11 19:45 +0100
Re: What linux will run on my laptop? Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-02-11 21:18 +0000
Re: What linux will run on my laptop? Michael Black <mblack@pubnix.net> - 2019-02-14 14:27 -0500
Re: What linux will run on my laptop? Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2019-02-14 13:54 -0600
Re: What linux will run on my laptop? Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2019-02-15 10:40 +0000
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