Re: Install Debian No CDROM, USB Floppy and Wireless Card
Hi
Thanks for your info and help. In the meantime I got my Libretto working fine,
what I did I put the harddrive into another laptop. installed the base
system, put the hdd back to the Toshiba, and did the net install of sarge.
What was tricky is that with the 2.4 kernel, the PCMCIA did not get an IRQ.
That is why I was unable to install from the boot floppies Debian supplies,
because they have a 2.4.27 kernel. Once I installed a 2.6.8 kernel from
another laptop with Debian Sarge RC2 installer, it worked fine, and I could
make the Prism based card work in the PCMCIA slot, and pulled all the rest of
the distro from the NET.
Thanks for the help, and I am already making a Document on how to install
Sarge on the Libretto, so soon it will be listed on tuxmobil.org
Cheers
Bence
On Monday 25 April 2005 01:11 am, Tim Cutts wrote:
> On 22 Apr 2005, at 8:46 am, Benedek Frank wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I just got an old Toshiba Libretto L1 from Japan, that has no CDrom,
> > nor LAN.
> > I have a Netgear 401 card that works fine with Debian, at least when I
> > do a
> > CD install with Sarge, from the 110MB install CD, it detects my Card as
> > Orinoco just fine and I can do a Network install.
> >
> > Now, I am asking if I can do the same booting from the Debian
> > floppies? I do
> > not have a USB CDrom, just a USB Floppy. Is it possible anyway to boot
> > from a
> > USB floppy?
>
> Years ago I installed Debian on a Libretto 100CT (and it's still going
> strong; puny it may be but it runs my home network - DHCP, DNS, web
> server, mail server, squid...) I have just found an old document where
> I described how I installed Debian on it. Bear in mind this is *very*
> old - I think it refers to Debian 2.0, but a similar procedure should
> still work these days.
>
> http://www.thecutts.org/debian/Linux-on-Libretto.html
>
> Actually, having just re-read that, most of that information is
> probably not relevant to the model of libretto you have, but still.
> Oh, and it doesn't mention the 8GB hard disk gotcha - when I upgraded
> the machine's drive to 12 GB, I found that because the BIOS still
> thought it was 8 GB, the hardware suspend-to-disk routine required
> unpartitioned space at the end of the bottom 8GB of the disk. I
> calculated that wrong the first time, and trashed the system. :-)
>
> Oh, and the PCMCIA floppy driver mentioned only works with 2.2 kernels.
>
> :-)
>
> Tim
>
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