Grant Parnell wrote: >On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Ryan Verner wrote: > >>Gidday... >> >>I'm wanting to configure my Toshiba Portege 3110CT to dual boot >>debian/win2k. At the moment its running XP (very, very bloddy slowly), and >>I have two partitions - a 4.5gig fat32 (c:), and a 1.2gig fat32 (d:). >>Basically, I want to install win2k to the 4.5gig, and erase the existing >>1.2gig fat32 and turn this into linux native/swap partitions. >> >>Under normal circumstances, this would be damn easy. However, the portege's >>do not have internal cdrom or floppy drives. I have no floppy drive, and no >>way to access one, and the cdrom drive is external (pcmcia), and even though >>I know linux does support it, the toshiba bios does not allow me to boot >>from this. This is the latest flashed firmware. >> >>The main issue is actually getting linux onto the machine. Somehow I need >>to invoke the debian install program. I can't drop to DOS, as I can't think >>of any way to do this, so loadlin isn't an option either. >> You should be able to get a dos prompt by running command.com. (Run --> c:\command.com) (I just hate that backslash!!!)
> >I haven't had to use Windows for years but I'd be surprised/amazed if they >finally got rid of the dos command prompt. > Yep, I think they have. Andy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
