telepathetic
10-18-2002, 02:13 AM
This is kinda complicated, but here's the story.
I got a Fujitsu laptop in Hong Kong that I've brought back to the states with me and now has a defunct CD-ROM and I lost it's floppy disk drive. It is running Windows 98 and has a viable ethernet connection to my DSL. I want to install Windows 2000/Linux without paying any money to ****ing Fujitsu. (Their floppy disc drive is $99 and their CD-ROM is $300 and this laptop won't take any generics.) Booting off USB peripherals is not an option (correct me if i'm wrong) since the bios will not boot up off a USB.
Is there a way for me to possible partition off a part of the harddrive and copy Windows2000/Linux CDs to that partition and have it boot off that partition?
or any other ideas you have?
I have another desktop hooked up to the network that I could use in any means y'all can think of.. to pipe my Windows 2000/Linux CDs through the ethernet to the laptop?
thanks for any help or ideas..
-michael
I got a Fujitsu laptop in Hong Kong that I've brought back to the states with me and now has a defunct CD-ROM and I lost it's floppy disk drive. It is running Windows 98 and has a viable ethernet connection to my DSL. I want to install Windows 2000/Linux without paying any money to ****ing Fujitsu. (Their floppy disc drive is $99 and their CD-ROM is $300 and this laptop won't take any generics.) Booting off USB peripherals is not an option (correct me if i'm wrong) since the bios will not boot up off a USB.
Is there a way for me to possible partition off a part of the harddrive and copy Windows2000/Linux CDs to that partition and have it boot off that partition?
or any other ideas you have?
I have another desktop hooked up to the network that I could use in any means y'all can think of.. to pipe my Windows 2000/Linux CDs through the ethernet to the laptop?
thanks for any help or ideas..
-michael