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["Anthony Albert" <albert AT umpi.maine.edu>]

On 2 Dec 2005 at 0:24, Quinn Quinn wrote:
>I recently fried my hard drive :P and I will be getting a new one.
>
>Since I only have a floppy drive and a pcmcia cdrom I was wondering if
>it would be possible to install BSL then add pcmcia support then I
>know there are versions of linux that can be installed from cdrom
>without booting (sorry,,,but BSL is not all I need). Is this possible?
>
>I'm also looking at building Linux from scratch. Would BSL be a
>suitable platform for this?

The first question is what are you intending to do?

If you just want to get a "full" version of Linux installed, I have 
seen distributions which support installation from PCMCIA CD-ROM... 
just build a boot floppy disk, and away you go...

The next question is: What do you mean by 'building Linux from 
scratch'?  Just compiling a kernel (which is probably in the  truest 
sense of the word 'Linux'), or building a whole distribution?

Anthony Albert
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Systems and Software Support Specialist          Postmaster
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