Laptop has only a PCMCIA CD-Rom


Forum: Laptops
Topic: Laptop has only a PCMCIA CD-Rom
started by: mitymo

Posted by mitymo on Jan. 30 2004,07:51
I have a subcompact laptop that has an external floppy and a PCMCIA CD-Rom. Is there any way that I will be able to boot from a floppy and then get DSL to run from the CD-Rom? Also, will a P166 w/ 96MB RAM be enough to run the GUI and all the apps that comes with DSL? Thanks for your help.

Mo

Posted by Stu Pidasso on Jan. 30 2004,17:50
I'm sorry I can't help you with the booting....my laptop has an internal CDROM. However I can tell you that P166 and 96Mb of RAM should be plenty for DSL to run smoothly.

I occaisonally use DSL (from CD) on a desktop system with a 300Mhz AMD K6 & only 64Mb of RAM and when I do it is more responsive than the Win98 system installed on the machine.  :)   As with any Live Linux CD, the more RAM the better.  If you are still worried about performance, you could set up a small swap parition on the hard drive, and DSL will find it and use it (I believe that is true, John, please correct me if I am wrong).

Posted by libretto on Jan. 30 2004,18:04
Hi there,

I have a similr problem, my Libretto 70CT has an external FDD but no CD-ROM. Unfortunately, the FDD isnt picked up on boot, so I have to put the laptop HDD into one of my normal PCs and do an install that way.

Have you tried booting the laptop from a DSL CD?

Posted by mitymo on Jan. 30 2004,18:11
I haven't tried it yet, but I guess it can't hurt to just download it, make a boot floppy and try it. If it doesn't work I guess I will just repartition my HD and install it that way. (I have a win98 boot floppy that has DOS drivers for the PCMCIA CD-Rom. Can you issue a command from DOS to load DSL?) I'll try to get back to you if I figure it out.
Posted by TyphoonMentat on Jan. 30 2004,19:32
DSL is loadable from DOS using loadlin, if you place the DSL KNOPPIX cloop image at C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX or D:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX or whatever.
Posted by McLinux on Feb. 19 2004,00:49
I just booted DSL on a Sony Vaio with pcmcia cd by using the option line:

knoppix nopcmcia ide2=0x180,0x386

This works for serveral types of linux on serveral models by Sony. I hope it helps you, too.

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