Running Core 4 on laptop

[Peter Jones]

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 09:24 +0200, Jay Turner wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 09:14:30PM -0700, Adam Boettiger wrote:
> > I have an older Sony Vaio laptop that I'd like to devote solely to Linux
> > Core 4. Problem is, I only have modem access on it (not broadband) and I
> > have no CD player for it, just a USB port.
> > 
> > Before I go buy a used accessory just to install the OS, is there any way
> > that you know of that I could download Core 4 to an external USB hard drive
> > through my PowerBook laptop broadband connection, then move the external USB
> > hard drive to the Vaio and install from the external USB drive?
> 
> FC4 does indeed support installing from an external USB drive, but I
> suspect the problem you're going to find is that the Vaio itself doesn't
> support booting from a USB device.  Depending on what OS you currently have
> on the machine (if any) there are other options which might work for you.
> If you have Windoze on the box already, you might want to check out
> "linload" which will allow you to load a kernel image from a DOS partition.

Just for clarification, I think Jay means "loadlin".

Unless we've suddenly swapped the conversation to one regarding booting
the installer from Windows on Alpha, of course ;)
-- 
        Peter