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From: allend on 24 Mar 2010 07:44 I recently installed Slackware on an Acer eMachine eM250 that has no optical drive. My method was: Prepared a USB boot stick with the usbinstaller on the install DVD. Upon starting, I hit F12 to get a boot device menu and selected the USB option. Once I had a root login, I then mounted a backup of an existing Slackware installation on an external USB hard disk. I did 'chroot' to this so that I could use 'ntfsresize' to reduce the size of the preinstalled NTFS partition. I then rebooted into Windows to complete the NTFS resize and used the Windows disk manager tool to setup additional partitions. After again rebooting with the USB stick, I conducted an NFS install from the install DVD mounted in my desktop. (I had previously set up NFS on the desktop for use with another laptop.) I am now dual booting Windows and Slackware.
From: steve on 24 Mar 2010 09:08
On Mar 24, 6:44 am, allend <David.Al...(a)dpi.vic.gov.au> wrote: > I recently installed Slackware on an Acer eMachine eM250 that has no > optical drive. > My method was: > Prepared a USB boot stick with the usbinstaller on the install DVD. > Upon starting, I hit F12 to get a boot device menu and selected the > USB option. > Once I had a root login, I then mounted a backup of an existing > Slackware installation on an external USB hard disk. I did 'chroot' to > this so that I could use 'ntfsresize' to reduce the size of the > preinstalled NTFS partition. > I then rebooted into Windows to complete the NTFS resize and used the > Windows disk manager tool to setup additional partitions. > After again rebooting with the USB stick, I conducted an NFS install > from the install DVD mounted in my desktop. (I had previously set up > NFS on the desktop for use with another laptop.) > > I am now dual booting Windows and Slackware. I only understand about half of what you're saying but it sounds like something that might work for me. Of course that assumes that this computer will boot from a USB stick. I never even imagined that I wouldn't be able to boot from a CD. Live and learn. |