Help on installing Deb 1.3.1 on Toshiba laptop
Hello.
I sent a request for help on this topic a few days ago, but have
received no responses
as of yet. In case I wasn't clear enough on my needs the first time,
I'm trying again.
If you saw the first request and just don't know of anything that would
help me, then I
apologize for the duplication! :-)
I purchased the Debian 1.3.1 binary/source CD set from LSL several
months ago, and am
finally getting to the actual installation (been *very* busy). What I
would *really*
like to be able to do is install Linux on a 1.5GB cartride in my Syquest
SyJet removable
drive, which I have attached to my Toshiba Satellite 105cs laptop via an
Adaptec APA-1460A
PCMCIA SCSI adapter, to which is also attached a Teac SCSI 16x CD-ROM
drive. My laptop
has a 504MB hard disk that has only the single partition it came with on
it, and that has
only about 170MB left on it; the Win95 stuff on it cannot be removed.
The laptop also has
24MB of RAM.
Is there any way possible that I can accomplish the installation on the
SyJet? I have no
real-mode card and socket services available on the machine, so my SCSI
adapter (and thus
the SyJet and CD-ROM drive) are invisible to DOS (at least to pure DOS;
I can access them
in a DOS-box under Win95 but this is obviously no good). Do any of the
Linux installation
utilies by any chance have built-in access to the PCMCIA cards? Is
there any alternative?
Also, on an unrelated topic, I've been monitoring this list for a few
days now (watching for
a response to my initial request, and also attempting to learn as much
as I can for when I
finally get my system installed :-) and have seen mentioned many times a
"hamm" system.
What, exactly, is "hamm"?
Thanks much in advance for any information you can offer me.
Philip Restuccia
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Periphonics Corporation
philip.restuccia@peri.com
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