[Discuss] Installing without an optical drive...

[Steven Kurylo]

> During an upgrade of my laptop, my cd-rom died.

> distros ... Puppy and DSL ... with no luck, as well I have tried getting
> the data off of my drive using a 2.5 to 3.5 adaptor. No good. I have
> also tried using a USB device to remote install DLS onto the OS
> partition, again with no luck. In this last case I actually managed to
> get as far as detecting hardware, etc, before it returned errors that
> ended the install.

It sounds like you have more than an optical drive problem.  What
media did you use to for your puppy/dsl attempts?  Was that trying to
use the cdrom?

If you were using a 2.5 to 3.5 adapter, I assume you were attaching
your laptop harddrive to your desktop.  What went wrong with that?  If
you take your harddrive out of your desktop, and only have the laptop
harddrive attached, you should be able to do an install.

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Steven Kurylo