Problem with Toshiba Protege 3010CT
Hi all
I'm having difficulties installing Debian on my Toshiba.. it won't boot
from CD (no surprise it's an old beast) but when I boot from floppy, it
initially wouldn't detect the external cd rom drive (connected via a
pcmcia card) after tweaking a bios setting it seems now to detect the
cd cdrive but on doing so it ejects the cd and the drive refuses to
close!
This results in the error message 'Unable to mount CD Drive, perhaps the CD is not inserted"
I have also tried using DSL to get some form of base install of Linux
then working from there, but with similar errors - even using a
Floppy/USB Stick combo to no avail.
A friend of mine is going to give me a loan of an ethernet card on
Monday that may allow me to do a net install (only card I have is a
wireless one that I think requires ndiswrappers) but I fear that may
still fail and I'll be back to the original problem.
I'm at the end of my teather with this, does anyone have any suggestions?
Cheers
Lee
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