PCMCIA with Portégé 3480

Forum: Laptops
Topic: PCMCIA with Portégé 3480
started by: LordCalf

Posted by LordCalf on Oct. 28 2004,12:54

Hy Guyz,

At First my english is not too good

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 :;):

Posted by AwPhuch on Oct. 28 2004,16:27

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

Posted by LordCalf on Oct. 29 2004,06:49

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

with special greetz and hope of help

Greez Sven from Dresden

Posted by cbagger01 on Oct. 31 2004,05:11

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 >

Posted by LordCalf on Nov. 01 2004,08:53

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 ?!

Posted by cbagger01 on Nov. 01 2004,22:41

Don't bother with your PCMCIA CDRW.

Boot up in your other OS and copy the contents of the DSL CD disk over to a FAT or FAT32 partition.

Hopefully, your FAT / FAT32 partition can be located as your first hard drive partition.

Then DSL boot floppy will find the files and it will use them as if your hard drive partition is a fake CDROM.

Good Luck.

Posted by LordCalf on Nov. 02 2004,11:59

nice idea and i read this often in threads but i have a little problem with this:

my partition table: (all four primary and the 1,2 with data)

1: NTFS
2: NTFS
3: ext2
4: swap

and now call me again another idea

Posted by cbagger01 on Nov. 02 2004,23:31

Sounds like you need to do some repartitioning...

Posted by LordCalf on Nov. 03 2004,07:27

this is NOT realizeable, why? this four partitions are all PRIMARY and the two ntfs have data and i would not want to reinstall them, also please help my otherwise, i thought this board is full of linux freaks

Greez LordCalf

Posted by LordCalf on Nov. 03 2004,14:01

i have a idea to do:

a bootdisc from debian all i need is the network driver
the only problem is how i connect to my computer cd drive and how i can start the install programm from cd over network ?!?!
I have DSL 0.8.3 on CD

Hope you can help me with this :laugh:

Posted by cbagger01 on Nov. 04 2004,03:32

You could try to use the network frugal install script.

It requires a copy of Tom's Root Boot Floppy Disk linux in order to use it, but it works.

Check this thread and also read the "How to" for details:

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....6;st=10 >