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Old 02-06-2004, 06:53 AM
Webmaster_Zeus Webmaster_Zeus is offline
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You have a few solution from here.
  • grab yourself a parallel cable or a null modem cable and transfer the whole windows installation files accross from one pc to the hard drive of the laptop
  • boot off a network card via the hardware or bootdisk (need a special one) and share the cdrom drive, and run install from there (there's a network boot disk somewhere on the net, done it quite successfully myself with the only catch it all has to be ms based, so no linux way to do this if using this boot disk).
  • install an external cd rom drive and load it up (can be a pain)
  • extract the hard drive from the laptop, put it into a pc with a cdrom drive (might need an extender so it fits on all 40 pins of the ide) and copy it accross there (installation files)
  • OR use a program such as arj, lha, rar, etc to compress the installation files to multiple floppies (will be slow and again a pain), though I use to do this back in the 486 days (well it was relatively small anyway).

HTH
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