Re: Install from single floppy
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:47:38AM +0100, Patrick Colbeck wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have just aquired a Toshiba Libretto 70CT onto which I want to
> intsall 2.2.r3 and wipe out the nasty corrupted Win98 that is
> currently on the hard drive. Unfortunately this cute little thing has
> a strange PCMCIA floppy and the install barfs loading the root disk
> (basically it cannot see the floppy drive).
>
> There is all sorts of info on installing RedHat on one of these using
> zip drives etc (which I dont have) but I was wondering is there a way
> to fo a network install using a PCMCIA card or perhaps PLIP that would
> use only a single 1.44Mb floppy to kick it off ?
>
> As an alternate method are there any instructions for creating custom
> install disks so I could build a kernel that suppoprted this weird floppy
> device ?
I don't know if there is PCMCIA support but read the installation
documentation at the debian site a little digging will probably tell you.
Another good spot to search is the mailing list archives.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html
hth,
kent
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