Debian on a Toshiba SS S4/275PNHW
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Hi,
I've installed Debian on a Toshiba SS S4/275PNHW (a while back already)
and finally got around to putting together a diff against boot-floppies
that is needed to install.
# I got a little "distracted" trying to return the pre-loaded OS and
still am :-| (see http://www13.0038.net/~olaf/no-return.en.html for
details).
This laptop has neither internal CD-ROM, nor internal floppies so some
boot-floppies patching was required to get it going. I don't know if
this model is available outside Japan. Toshiba recently released two
derived models, the S5/280PNKW and S5/280PNLN , that should be
installable with my customized boot floppies.
# Note, I do not recommend any of these computers. As a matter of
fact, I'd recommend you buy *no* Toshiba products at all if you care
about your rights as a customer.
I've installed on my S4/275PNHW in a variety of ways using these
patched boot-floppies and a set of woody pre-release CD-ROMs:
boot kernel/drivers base system
smart media USB floppy USB CD-ROM
USB floppy USB floppy USB CD-ROM
smart media USB stick drive USB CD-ROM
I haven't tried but am pretty sure you could even install from a single
USB stick drive (using the 2.88MB floppy image and a minimal file
system containing the kernel, drivers and base system packages in the
right places).
Anyway, the patch and instructions to build custom boot floppies are
available via:
http://www13.0038.net/~olaf/floppies.en.html
Time permitting, I'll polish up and add my installation/configuration
notes.
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Olaf Meeuwissen
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