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Posted: Mar. 10 2008,21:18

i have an Toshiba 110cs it is an very old laptop with an P1, 800MB HD,24MB Ram, a floppy drive, a etherlink III pcmcia network card and a 800x600 display

i want to run DSL on this laptop but i don't have a CD, but i do have a floppy drive and a network card so i followed this guide;
http://damnsmalllinux.org/network-install.html

but when i tried to write the image of tomsrbt to a floppy i got an error that my floppy is too small, it is only 1440KB instead of the necessary 1880KB or 2100KB.
then i found a guide to install it by writing 30 floppy's but i really don't have the time to write and extract 30 floppy's

isn't there a methode to let my laptop connect to my other pc so it can download all the necessary files from my main pc?
like a network install from Debian or Ubuntu?

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Posted: Mar. 10 2008,23:40

Did you see http://www.toms.net/rb/tomsrtbt.FAQ

Or the (more updated) pages in the wiki http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Installation

How did you try writing your floppy image?

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Posted: Mar. 11 2008,06:16

i already read this guide http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki....tall%29

but it doesn't work for by because i don't have 1.72MB floppies and rgrescue doesn't work either because it can't detect my pcmcia card

when i try to write the tomsrbt image for dos on my pc it gives me this error;
http://img296.imageshack.us/my.php?image=errorsm8.png

i have vista on my main pc, and no other os is running on my laptop
i tried to write floppies with rawrite

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Posted: Mar. 11 2008,13:18

1.44mb floppies can be formatted to be 1.72mb ones, just not on windoze. Boot the DSL cd on your desktop machine, and you'll find an easy floppy formatter tool in the menu.
You can also write the floppy image from DSL after formatting.

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Posted: Mar. 11 2008,15:57

it worked!
i wrote the floppy with tomsrbt and it booted,
but now there is another problem.

when i downloaded the frugal_lite.sh with wget and try to load the script with ./frugal_lite.sh, i get an error; permission denied

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