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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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