Hello all. I just purchased a Toshiba Libretto 110c. This is - for thise that have not seen one - a machine about 25% the size of the smallest laptops. It is a 266mHz, 66 meg, Win98 machine. I want to put SuSE 8.0 on it. It's floppy is PCCard, with a 4 gig hard drive and a PCCard ethernet. The problem is this. SuSE reads fine from the floppy until it realizes it is PCCard, then wants to load the drivers from mudules3 disk. It can't read them, because it has now disabled the floppy to try to install the PCCard driovers. Now, least anyone think this is odd, it isn't. Most OSes will read odd hardware fine until it realizes it is doing so, and trys to load drivers. Windows will read SCSI CD-Roms fine until it realizes it needs a driver for it. So what happens is I boot the bootfloppy, it asks for modules1, I put that in, it finishes loading the kernel, starts probing the hardware, relaizes there is a PCCard chipset, and asks for modules3. I could copy all the files to the hard drive and install from there, but as it is only a 4 gig, I'd end up with 1 gig or less for linux! No! Any ideas? What is the minimum files that would need to be copied to the hd for the install to take place there? Is there some way of creating a set of two boot disks that would load the PCCard drivers before probing, so that everything would be in memory when needed? Thanks!
Quoting Timothy Reaves
Hello all. I just purchased a Toshiba Libretto 110c. This is - for thise that have not seen one - a machine about 25% the size of the smallest laptops. It is a 266mHz, 66 meg, Win98 machine. I want to put SuSE 8.0 on it. It's floppy is PCCard, with a 4 gig hard drive and a PCCard ethernet.
It's a bloody endless loop...:-) The only way I could get it installed on my 110ct (with no CD-ROM) was to; 1. Have a small Windows partition and ntransfer the contents of CD1 to that, then run the install from there. or 2. Remove the hard drive and connect it to another machine with one of those 2.5" to 3.5" adapters. X will present its own challenges, due to the 800 x 480 screen resolution - took me about a month to get it right !!! Jon
One you trnasfered to cd to the Windows partition, how did you run the install? On Fri, 3 May 2002 10:10:26 +1000 jon@fl.net.au wrote:
Quoting Timothy Reaves
: Hello all. I just purchased a Toshiba Libretto 110c. This is - for thise that have not seen one - a machine about 25% the size of the smallest laptops. It is a 266mHz, 66 meg, Win98 machine. I want to put SuSE 8.0 on it. It's floppy is PCCard, with a 4 gig hard drive and a PCCard ethernet.
It's a bloody endless loop...:-)
The only way I could get it installed on my 110ct (with no CD-ROM) was to;
1. Have a small Windows partition and ntransfer the contents of CD1 to that, then run the install from there.
or
2. Remove the hard drive and connect it to another machine with one of those 2.5" to 3.5" adapters.
X will present its own challenges, due to the 800 x 480 screen resolution - took me about a month to get it right !!!
Jon
If you could post that HOWTO to the list, I would be very grateful!
Thanks,
-ronc
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Quoting Timothy Reaves
: One you trnasfered to cd to the Windows partition, how did you run the install?
By booting off the FIRST floppy...:-)
Ill prepare a Hiw-To on it and send youa copy.
Jon
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I could copy all the files to the hard drive and install from there, but as it is only a 4 gig, I'd end up with 1 gig or less for linux! No!
Just remembered - I ended up using Partition Magic to reduce the Windows partition to 1Gb (well, 650Mb or free space - just enough for a CD !!), and the remainder for Linux !!
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Timothy Reaves