HD Install :: Toshiba Libretto - have Floppy and CDrom



To be honest, I canīt remember how I got it finally  :(
One of the sites I searched was Linux on the C1VE
Didnīt get much further because I saw no use for myself.
Quality of the camera is not so great and I couldnīt find a webcam app.
The Sony Picturebook is old and not very powerful, yet still using DSL, you can have fun with the builit motion eye camera:

modprobe sonypi camera=1
modprobe meye gbuffers=32 video_nr=0

Then grab the xawtv MyDSL extension and use it by:

xwatv -c /dev/video0 -geometry 320x240
This was exactly what I did!
Taking snapshots of me sitting in front of my computer is not so exciting. Is there any webcam application available?
Quote (dslrgm @ July 19 2007,04:05)
This SHOULD be a slam-dunk if I know where to start and how to get to the end  :p

I have my old Libretto CT110.  64Mb memory and 4Gb hard drive.

I have a bootable PCMCIA floppy that came with the Libretto; it MUST go in PCMCIA slot 1.

I have a Toshiba PCMCIA CDROM that **can** go in PCMCIA slot 2.

I have a PCMCIA card with 4 USB 2.0 ports that MUST go into PCMCIA slot 1.  I have a DVD/CD USB drive and other USB devices (like Bluetooth and pen drives).

I have PCMCIA wireless and ethernet cards that **can** go into PCMCIA slot 2.

Of course the Libretto CT110 has the wonderful 7" weird sized screen.

Floppy and CDROM in place, Boot off of floppy and continue install from CDrom onto HD?  will the Floppy install diskette recognize the PCMCIA CDrom?

Then after the intial install, boot with the USB PCMCIA card in slot 1 and the CDrom still in slot 2 and then install what to get the USB working?

Then switch to the USB DVD/CDrom and the ethernet card in slot 2 and install what?

Well, no slam dunk.

DSL is NOT recognizing the PCMCIA CDrom.

If I boot with my NT drive, I get the drive no problem.  And I have no desire to put DSL on that NT drive (it is dying).

I have a few things to try out when I get home friday:

I have a Win98 DOS diskette with CDrom drivers that will get the CDrom recognized.  Is there some command to start the DSL HD install from a DOS boot?

I have that USB PCMCIA card and a USB CDrom.  I guess I would download the usbfloppy.img and have that ready when I:  dsl frompcmcia and then hope DSL sees that USB CDrom...

Otherwise what?

BTW, the floppy DSL boot just hangs after not finding the PCMCIA CDrom.  Even though it gives me a message that I have a minimum set of comands.  Nothing.
You could boot that dos disk and copy all the files to the destination HD, and then boot them from dos..
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