[ale] Remote boot/install on old notebook, no floppy/CD/ethernet?

[Jerry Yu]

what about a parallel-port CDROM drive?  I tested one such thing for disater
recovery on those slip-cased Crystal boxen long time ago with redhat 6.2 or
7.x .

On 8/4/06, Dan Lambert <danlambert at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> If you can figure out how to attach a CD that will be bootable, you
> could do that. Otherwise, it might be that the best methdology would be
> to use a PCMCIA network card. 3COM or Xircom cards can be had without
> too much trouble.
>
> What make and model laptop is it? I don't remember seeing that in the
> original post.
>
> Dan
>
>
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 09:55, mute wonder wrote:
> >
> >
> >>*PC to PC*:  The notebook has a serial DB9, printer DB25, and one USB
> >>ports.  Would it be viable to connect it to another computer and
> >>remotely repartition the notebook, install stuff and so on?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Will not work.  I can think of know way you can configure linux to a
> >target disk via a serial cable.
> >
> >
> >
> >>*Get removable drives*:  There's another connector labeled for an
> >>external floppy or CD drive.  It looks most like a SCSI VHDCI68, but
> >>that's a half-educated guess. I know little about SCSI, and have less
> >>experience with them.  So, any information regarding external SCSI
> >>floppy or CD drives would be good.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Too much trouble.  You'll need to look on ebay.
> >
> >I would remove the drive and somehow get Linux on it.  Does this
> >notebook have a network port?
> >
> >What I've done in the past was to copy the linux kernel and initrd off
> >an FC2 network install CD.  I then create a grub entry.  What this
> >allows me to do is select "Reinstall" at bootup.  This requires a
> >network interface to work.
> >
> >
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