Re: DragonFly over Sony Vaio

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:21:00 +0100
> "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de> wrote:
>
> > > My ancient Vaio C1XS does not come with a CD-ROM drive, and will only boot
> > > off of a Sony-branded PCMCIA-based CD-ROM drive.
> > >
> > > So that kinda sucks. :)
> > How do you ever install an OS on this box?
>
> In the case of my ancient C1XD (more or less the same as the C1XS), I
> managed by 
> -> using LILO from preinstalled Windows or floppy (don't
> remember), 
> -> from Linux, setting up network block device server, and
> then 
> -> used a Linux host running QEmu with harddisk set to the (then
> connected) network block device.

Or just plug its disk into another box and install from there.

Sascha

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