HD Install :: Need some help w/ Install



Hi all.
First, i must say I'm (almost) totally new to linux, so I understand that there won't be probably one-click solutions for me, but much reading. It's just that any instructions i've tried to read on the subject blow me with terms and commands that i don't understand.
I have old Toshiba laptop (3110ct)
P-II 300mhz cpu, 128mb ram, 30gb hdd.

It is ultra slim model so it doesn't have nor floppy neither cd-rom. (to be precise, it has pcmia cardbus cd-rom, which doesn't support booting, and bios doesn't supprt cd-rom booting anyway.) It also doen't have network card, and can't boot from usb. I only have pcmia wifi card which is helpless.

I have dual-boot with win98 and win2000 at startup. So dos mode is accessible to me (when i press F8 in win98 and enter "command prompt only"..
My hard disk partition destribution is pretty complicated. So you will get better idea by seing it:

Disks C (win98) and F (win2k) are primary partitions, rest are extended partiotion. Disk C is active. Disk Z is separate swap partition for Win2000 (win2k swap file sits there)
Disks H and E are temporary and can be removed if needed. Also D can be resized to smaller one.

What I've done so far - is extracted the contents of the .iso file on c: drive.
No idea what to do next.
Please help.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Loadlin_Install

That might be the way to do it. Ask if there is something unclear.

Because you have not floppy neither cdrom you need boot DSL from Windows or DOS. This metod is called: Loadlin Install.
Please read: http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Loadlin_Install
Sorry, i have not even experience with Loadlin Install.

Loadlin will not work in Win2000. It should work in w98 but only if you start it in dos mode without drivers etc. - I think you can do this by pressing a key when booting (it may be F5 or F8).
Press F8 and choose "safe mode command prompt", if I remember correctly.
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