----- Original Message ----- From: Andy Eager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, March 8, 2002 3:25 pm Subject: Re: [SLUG] Laptop + Debian + no way to install it (help?).
> 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 > surprise>finally got rid of the dos command prompt. > > > Yep, I think they have. > > Andy Let's put it this way, they upgraded it to a 32-bit environment. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
