Laptops :: PCMCIA with Portégé 3480



Hy Guyz,

At First my english is not too good  :O

My Problem is following:
I have a Toshiba Portégé 3480 Laptop and i will install DSL with my PCMCIA CD RW Slimline, the Problem is my Laptop doenst start it ! I cant configure this in my BIOS ! Have anyone a Boot Disc or any Idea to start the DSL Live CD on this machine ?

Greez Sven from Germany  :;):
You are going to have to do a poormans install...or burn a special loadlin cd

If you have a fat32 partition anywhere on harddrive copy the /KNOPPIX and /boot directories to that drive (make one if needed 64Megs as C:\)

Use the 0.8.0 boot floppy and it should autodetect the /KNOPPIX dir and start running it from the hd...then create new ext2 partition, do hd install, install lilo. On reboot you can then load dsl from the ext2 partition...use cfdisk to erase the old fa32 partition (if you dont want it) and make it a linux swap partition and reboot...now you have a HD install with swap partition

Brian
AwPhuch
Thanks at first,

how can i get this boot floppy ? (LINK please)

my partitions are following:
1: ntfs c:
2: ntfs d:
3: ext2
4: swap

all 4 are primary thats a little problem i think ?! why ? c and d are full of data  ???

i need a floppy to boot the pcmcia  :O

with special greetz and hope of help

Greez Sven from Dresden
You can get the boot floppy image here:

ftp://ibiblio.org/pub....8.0.img

And you can get the boot floppy creation program here:

http://www.duskware.com/download/rawrite.zip
just thx for the links,

but there is a error, think that he dont wanna find my hdd and cdrw @ pcmcia  :angry:

ERROR:
Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you out to a (very limited) shell.
Press reset button to quit.

Please HELP i need DSL  :(

Do i have to mount the pcmcia ? self ?!
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