How to put the system on HP Compaq Armada M700?

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roma282013-05-04 10:09:30

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roma28, 2013-05-04 10:09:30

I have an HP Compaq Armada M700 laptop with a floppy drive, but it does not have a system. I want to put something like Windows 98 or a small Linux distribution on it. Tell me how to do it. I really hope for your help.

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roma28, 2013-05-19
@roma28

Installed Windows 98 by copying the image files directly to the hard drive and running setup.exe from DOS.

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Backspace, 2013-05-04
@Backspace

The Armada M700 has a CD-RW drive, USB, and a network. It's a little strange that with all this you want to install the system using floppy disks.

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Mikael Grigoryan, 2013-05-04
@temujin

Any Linux distro can be made small. You can install Debian or Gentoo Linux. They are well documented and there are a lot of installation options from everything you can, including CD-ROM, USB and over the network.

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nochkin, 2013-05-05
@nochkin

I know this car. There is a regular IDE screw that you can pull out, install the same Linux on another machine and put it back.
You can even create a separate partition with installation files (even Win98 if you want) from which you can do the installation.

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@mgyk, 2013-05-05
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I had such a machine there and WinXP works fine and ubuntu 10.04.
You can install it like this:
1) Create a virtual machine in VirtualBox
2) Install OS into it
3) Convert the VDI image to a RAW image
VBoxManage -q internalcommands converttoraw win98.vdi win98.eng.se.raw
4) Next, copy this image to the hard drive
dd if=win98.eng.se.raw of=/dev/sdX bs=512