Bug#276954: Installation report for Toshiba Libretto 110CT
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version:
[30 Sep 2004] Debian-Installer pre-rc2, a technology preview release
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/i386/pre-rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/pre-rc2/hd-media/vmlinuz
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/pre-rc2/hd-media/initrd.gz
uname -a:
Linux libretto 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Oct 7 02:21:16 EDT 2004 i586 GNU/Linux
Date: 16-Oct-2004 about 20:00:00 CET
Method:
DI manual section A.2.5. Booting from hard disk
Booted to Windows 95. Copied the above downloaded files to the relevent
locations, then used loadlin as follows :-
c:\opt\sarge\loadlin.exe c:\opt\sarge\vmlinuz root=/dev/ram ro initrd=c:\opt\sarge\initrd.gz ramdisk_size=16384 mem=64m disksize=1.44
Machine: Toshiba Libretto 110CT
Processor: Mobile Pentium MMX 233Mhz
Memory: 64Mb
Root Device: 4 Gb IDE hard drive
Root Size/partition table:
libretto:~# cfdisk -P s
Partition Table for /dev/hda
First Last
# Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flag Notes
-- ------- ----------- ----------- ------ ----------- -------------------- ----
1 Primary 0 4192964 63 4192965 FAT16 (06) Boot Windows 95 boot
2 Primary 4192965 8289539 0 4096575 Extended (05) None Linux
5 Logical 4192965 8096759 63 3903795 Linux (83) Boot - Linux root partition
6 Logical 8096760 8289539 63 192780 Linux swap (82) None - Linux swap partition
Pri/Log 8289540 8450189 0 160650 Free Space None Used for the Toshiba hibernate feature
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
libretto:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems 601 (rev 2e)
0000:00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] (rev 01)
0000:00:11.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port (rev 22)
0000:00:13.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 20)
0000:00:13.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 20)
0000:05:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3cCFE575BT Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus [Cyclone] (rev 01)
libretto:~# lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1179:0601 (rev 2e)
0000:00:04.0 0300: 10c8:0004 (rev 01)
0000:00:11.0 0780: 1179:0701 (rev 22)
0000:00:13.0 0607: 1179:060f (rev 20)
0000:00:13.1 0607: 1179:060f (rev 20)
0000:05:00.0 0200: 10b7:5157 (rev 01)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [E]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
This ultra-portable has a non-standard floppy, and I have no PCMCIA CD-ROM for it. Linux installation is
therefore more difficult than usual. In the past I have had Suse & Debian Woody on it, but always with a
2.2.x kernel, since I know it supports this hardware. It has long been dual booting Windows 95 & Linux.
At some point I shrunk the original 4Gb Windows partition to 2Gb for Windows 95 + 2Gb for Linux. I
used to use loadlin to boot, but this time I switched to GRUB. I tried a from-scratch install of Sarge,
destroying the previous Woody installation. Unfortunately, the installer failed to find my PCMCIA network
card - a 3Com Corporation 3cCFE575BT Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus. I have another PCMCIA network card
(DynaLink L10C NE2000 Compatible). This was detected and worked. The installation went fine after that.
Experimenting with the problem 3Com card, I found it would not work with the 2.4.27 kernel provided by
the installer. I installed 2.6.8-1-386, and the 3Com card worked fine. I then considered a complete
reinstall, but booting the following 2.6 installer kernel image :-
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/pre-rc2/hd-media/2.6/initrd.gz
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/pre-rc2/hd-media/2.6/vmlinuz
This was to see if 2.6 installer kernel would detect the 3Com card. However, loadlin.exe was not able to boot
this kernel. I did not investigate further (or try alternative MS-DOS bootloaders like SYSLINUX), since I had
a working system.
In general the install was fine. I thought the partitioning step was a bit more involved than the Woody installer.
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