Debian install on the Ricoh g1200s
As if like isn't hard enough, I've gone and bought a g1200s and am trying
to put linux on it. For those of you who aren't familiar with this
machine, it's a tablet computer with a pcmcia hard drive and a cdrom. I
can plug in a keyboard and mouse for the setup procedure, but my eventual
goal is to get the diffs loaded which will allow me to use xscribble for
handwriting recognition on the pressure sensitive screen.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get past the install. I have an
ibm-pc110 with a floppy drive that I have used to install the latest stable
base distribution of debian onto a viper 260mb type III hard drive. I had
it put LILO on the MBR, but I still needed the floppy for the reboot. This
is going to be a problem as the g1200s has no floppy drive.
The immediate problem is that I can't access the Microsolutions backpack
cdrom on the parallel port. I instructed the system to load the paride
module. The module appears to be loaded when I reboot, but when I got to
apt configuration, the cdrom isn't detected. It then asks me to enter the
file I wish to use to access the cdrom. This is where I'm stuck. I don't
know which file it's talking about. module, device mount point...? Like I
said, I'm stuck.
Thanks
Peter
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