Toshiba Libretto - have Floppy and CDrom
Forum: HD Install
Topic: Toshiba Libretto - have Floppy and CDrom
started by: dslrgm
Posted by dslrgm on July 19 2007,08:05
This SHOULD be a slam-dunk if I know where to start and how to get to the end 
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.
So this SHOULD be easy, where do I start? Frugal or HD install?
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? (and then madwifi for my dlink atheros card).
And of course config the video to support the LCD and the external VGA port.
There has GOT to be a cookbook for all of this, right?
I would LOVE to start doing things on my good, old Libretto. My first machine when I started working my current job back in '98. And remote terminal from it into a decTOP (Geode GX500, 256 or 512Mb memory, a CF IDE drive for DSL and a CF micro drive IDE for data) for 'real work'.
Posted by curaga on July 19 2007,09:08
Well, you have some booting and swapping pcmcia cards to do..I'd boot the floppy & pcmcia cd with "dsl 2 nousb nofirewire vga=808 nodhcp"
vga=808 is 800x480x24 which is the best Librettos can usually do..
If the pcmcia cd is recognized, you get an shell. If not, there are some codes for pcmcia cdroms in the wiki..
From there make & format your partitions, then start "dsl-hdinstall"
For your comp I'd go with traditional HD install, it runs faster.
After that you think it's more complicated than it is. No need to install anything to get usb or madwifi work.
Just plug in the usb pc-card and that wireless one..
Posted by stampede_dude on July 19 2007,09:32
I had only one 16bit slot so I just moved the hard drive to a Dell CS (Still need to put this back together) and used the boot code install twice: First to use cfdisk to make my primary and swap, and then secondly to install. After it tells you to reboot after removing the disk to complete the installation, just turn your computer off when it reboots and switch the drives.
Posted by Andreas on July 19 2007,16:46
It was the same with my L100.Have the floppy and several PCMCIA CD drives but couldnīt boot DSL.
So I swapped HD into another laptop and after installation - before rebooting - swapped it back.
Posted by roberts on July 19 2007,18:07
Andreas, I see you have listed a Vaio C1VN?
Is this the picturebook with motion eye?
If so, the motion eye works out of the box with DSL!
Posted by Andreas on July 19 2007,19:36
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.
Posted by roberts on July 19 2007,22:29
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
Posted by Andreas on July 20 2007,04:44
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?
Posted by dslrgm on July 23 2007,10:06
| 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 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.
Posted by curaga on July 23 2007,10:51
You could boot that dos disk and copy all the files to the destination HD, and then boot them from dos..
Posted by dslrgm on July 23 2007,15:16
| Quote (curaga @ July 23 2007,06:51) |
| You could boot that dos disk and copy all the files to the destination HD, and then boot them from dos.. |
OK. I am missing a lot here. I probably have to do one 'simple' install to understand the workings of DSL HD install...
I would first want to partition the disk so that I would end up with grub and a /boot partition.
So you say I copy the fils the the HD. How is the HD formatted? I would guess FAT32?
What is meant by 'boot them from dos'?
Are you speaking of running DSL under dos? Given this system, my goal is native DSL....
Posted by curaga on July 23 2007,16:21
did you try using the boot floppy with "dsl frompcmcia" and the pcmcia floppy after that?'cause on the pcmcia floppy there are drivers for pcmcia devices..
If that won't work, I'll go into detail here.
Boot dos. Delete all partitions, create one 128mb, one 20mb and one the rest.
Format only that 128mb one. To fat32.
Then copy everything from the cd to that 128mb partition, guess it's C:
Now you're gonna boot the cd from the HD. It will still think it's a cd.
I thought booting DSL from dos would be best, but I changed my mind.
After this boot DSL boot floppy, using "dsl 2 root=hda1".
It will boot the cd from the HD. Now you can format the nonformatted partitions.
Make them both ext2. (mke2fs /dev/hda2), and the same with hda3.
Then type "dsl-hdinstall" and when it asks where you're installing, select hda3.
Don't install a bootloader or reboot when it tells so, 'cause you still have to separate /boot.
mount hda2, aka the to-be-boot partition. I guess you need it separate 'cause of the old bios?
Move everything from /boot to hda2. So /boot is now an empty dir.
Mount hda3, aka where you installed DSL. Edit etc/fstab:
right after this line: "/dev/hda3 / ext2 ........"
add this line: "/dev/hda2 /boot ext2 defaults 0 0"
umount hda3. Then to hda2. edit grub/menu.lst by adding "nofstab" to each line of boot arguments (this'll keep your fstab together) and also for your separation of boot (all "root (hdsomething)" lines should say root (hd0,1))
Type this:
| Quote |
| grub root (hd0,1) setup (hd0) quit |
Phew, I hope this was clear enough..
Posted by curaga on July 23 2007,16:23
After a succesful HD install you will change that 128mb working partition into swap..