At 05:48 30/11/01 +0000, chris ord wrote: ><Delurk> >Hello to the list, i've just relocated from the Uk and decided to stick >debian on my toshiba libretto. Anyway the day I get hold of a debian CD >windo$e just flatlines the whole system-Big Style (Cue Omen music). As all >of the peripherals are through the PC card slot I can't get hold of an >installer or root rescue floppy (no problem with that, set in bios) that >has the drivers installed for the CD drive. Unfortunately whilst there is >a bios update that allows users to boot off CDRom it's for windows only >not DOS, I thought of going through serial but my powerbook doesn't have >serial on it even if I could work out how to PPP to the mac cdrom. >I'm a bit stuck without any resources over here and wondered if anyone had >any ideas or a custom adapter to slot the IDE drive into an existing >system and just reformat the whole drive and install/rebuild with >necessary services. >I've tried everything I could think of so far but am now stuck. >Any suggestions greatly appreciated. >Cheers >Chris ><Relurk>
Hi Chris, I've got SuSE 7.2 working fine on a Libretto 110 - the only way I could get it working was to dual-boot, as the CD-ROM isn;t bootable, and the floppy doesn't read the modules disk. Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
