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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Mads Laursen wrote:
> Hello fellow sourcemages
> 
> I'm currently considering a new laptop - a Thinkpad X60. As the
> machine does not have a builtin optical drive, the installation of
> sourcemage will have to be handled in some other way.
> 
> Obviously I could just buy, borrow or steal an external drive and get
> it over with, but I would like to know if anybody has a better
> suggestion?
> 
> Could the sourcemage installer be transfered to a suitably big
> usb-storage device and still work?
> 
> Could the installer be made to netboot and install that way?
> 
> Any other suggestions?
> 
> And I really hop I have not overlooked some obvious guide or
> documentation that answers this - RTFM + a URL would be totally
> useful.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> /dossen

Your best bet is to use the chroot install method described at
http://wiki.sourcemage.org/install_using_chroot and
http://wiki.sourcemage.org/FunWithChroot to build a chroot (or use the
ISO chroot available somewhere) and copy that to your machine using a
network-enabled boot floppy (or USB stick).

-sandalle

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