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Hi all, My computer is a HP omnibook 500 and it doesn't have a floppy or CD ROM.(Actually the dock doesn't work) So I tried installing via the internet starting ...
  1. 03-24-2008 #1
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    Hi all, My computer is a HP omnibook 500 and it doesn't have a floppy or CD ROM.(Actually the dock doesn't work) So I tried installing via the internet starting with Instlux. Everything went well initially but after downloading 70MB it said that it needs a swap partition. When I made a linux and swap partition on my 30GB NTFS HDD now the message comes as Partition table not valid. I can remove my HDD. What can I do?
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    Hi and Welcome !

    If you can remove Hard Disk then why dont you plugin it in other machine having CD Drive? Just install any Linux Distro in Hard Disk and plug-in it back HP omnibook. You might face Display problem but thats pretty easy to fix.

    Which Linux distro are you trying to install? Post omnibook's specs here.
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    My laptop is a Pentium III 496MHz, 30GB HDD, 256MB RAM.
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    Thank you

    Hi, Thanks for the reply. It might be some time before I can borrow a computer Where I can plug it in. I was thinking whether I can fix it to a Sata USB adapter and install Linux into it. What do you think? Will it work?
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    I was thinking whether I can fix it to a Sata USB adapter and install Linux into it. What do you think? Will it work?
    Yes. It should work. Do let us know how it goes.
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