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 -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
