Re: Install Debian No CDROM, USB Floppy and Wireless Card
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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Dr Tim Cutts
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