I have just tried a live cd of antix and am very impressed. I have been looking for something to run on my old notebook for sometime and antix seems to fit the bill. My problem though is that the cd rom will only read professionally pressed cd's so I need a method of install. I have a single usb port, a floppy drive and access to a network via win98 and a usb ethernet card.
Can anyone help me with this ???
how to install antix
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anticapitalista
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Can you boot from usb on your notebook?
If you can then you could use the usb device to install from. To see how:
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There is also a way to boot from the iso on a hard-drive, but you need a separate partition for this. I haven't tried this on a Windows box though.
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Any reason why you have antiX-M7 Lysistrata?
The newest version is antiX-M7.7 Toussaint Louverture.
If you can then you could use the usb device to install from. To see how:
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There is also a way to boot from the iso on a hard-drive, but you need a separate partition for this. I haven't tried this on a Windows box though.
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Any reason why you have antiX-M7 Lysistrata?
The newest version is antiX-M7.7 Toussaint Louverture.
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#3
I am sorry I have probably posted in the wrong forum. I have downloaded he lastest version.
AAnd the questions. 1( No I cannot boot from the USB and 2) Yes I am looking at booting an iso from the harddrive as the only way I can figure of doing this
Thanks
AAnd the questions. 1( No I cannot boot from the USB and 2) Yes I am looking at booting an iso from the harddrive as the only way I can figure of doing this
Thanks
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anticapitalista
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Let us know how it goes, or post if you need more help.
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#5
I have managed to get this to boot by copying the files from the cd-rom to
/boot
/mepis
I will now try to get it accross to my old notebook and see how it goes
thanks for the help
roger
/boot
/mepis
I will now try to get it accross to my old notebook and see how it goes
thanks for the help
roger