Re: Installation fails on Toshiba 410CDT
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 23:24, Stephen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:05:06PM -0500 or thereabouts, Kamaraju Kusumanchi
wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 16:01, Stephen wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:56:33PM -0500 or thereabouts, Kamaraju
> > > Kusumanchi
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 13:40, Stephen wrote:
> > > > > Any ideas on how to install Debian on this laptop ? The installer
> > > > > mentions using some other methods, but since this baby isn't
> > > > > networked, I can't do a netinstall. :(
>
> [ ...]
>
> > http://www.debian.org/distrib/floppyinst points to the installation
> > manaul which can be found at
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual . It has all the
> > instructions on how to prepare floppies etc.,
>
> Yes, I had already done this, however the problem is that the Sarge
> installer requires more than 16 MB of ram to install, period. Which I
> don't have (remember this is an old laptop, hence one can't boot from
> the CD). The install craps out due to not enough memory, when it starts
> loading packages from the CD via the Sarge installer.
>
Sorry! I read your question wrong. I was under the assumption that some how
you were not able to boot from your CD drive. That is why I suggested floppy
drive method. Looks like you are able to boot from CD drive but the only
thing is that you can't install debian due to the memory constraint...
No idea how to solve that problem.
raju
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