DSL on toshiba libretto

Forum: HD Install
Topic: DSL on toshiba libretto
started by: maxwas

Posted by maxwas on Sep. 20 2005,22:41

Hello all,

I have been given a challenge.

Someone has given me an old toshibal libretto 50. It has a p75, 32mb RAM, 800mb hd (with win98 on). However it has no cdrom or usb, it has a floppy and nic, both through pcmcia. What would be the best method of installing DSL?

Any suggestions (or opinions) would be greatly appreciated

Thx in advance

Dave

Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 21 2005,03:51

3 ways come to mind.

(1) Make a Tom's Root Boot floppy (tomsrtbt) and use it to do a network install of DSL.

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki....tall%29 >

(2) Yank the hard drive and put it into another computer and use it to install DSL. Laptop drive to IDE adapters are cheap (under $10).

(3) Do the floppy install method that involves using RAR or ZIP to move the 50MB of DSL over by spanning it on 1.44 MB floppy disks.

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki....ired%29 >

Posted by maxwas on Sep. 21 2005,08:21

Somebody had mentioned to me about copying the files to the win partition and starting the install from there, not too sure how to do that tho.

Thx

Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 21 2005,17:24

Boot up Win98 on your target machine.

Download the DSL iso file.

Use ISOBUSTER or DAEMON TOOLS to extract the KNOPPIX file from the iso image file. You need to place the file at location:

C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX

Note the ALL UPPERCASE CHARACTERS

Then make a DSL boot floppy disk and use it:

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Boot_Floppies >

Posted by maxwas on Sep. 21 2005,22:17

Thx cbagger, i will try that method.

How does DSL fare with 10mb pcmcia cards? it would be a bonus to get online

Posted by xavier on Sep. 22 2005,20:15

Hi,

I am completely a newbie with linux os, but I am very interested in upgrading my todhiba libretto 50 ct (comes with 16 mb ram). But I have a problem, the unit came just with a port replicator and not even a floppy or cd drive. So, how can I boot the damn linux on it? I have thought doing it by using a cf card or microdrive attach to a pcmcia adapter, would it work? Or should I put the libretto's hd i another laptop and boot from it?

Sorry, but I have too many questions. After getting the damn linux running on my libretto, would recognise a hitachi hard drive o a 512 MB cf card, an ethernet cf card or even a wireless cf card?
Is there any equivalente to the power point software on this OS?
What files do I have to download from the download section?

Maybe some of the questions are silly ones, but as I have said above I am new on linux.

Thanks for your help,

Cheers,

Xavier