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Posted: Aug. 20 2008,19:27 QUOTE

Hmm, well. I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 480CDT that was collecting dust. It ran Windows 95, until I found a Addonics PCMCIA CD-ROM. After downloading the drivers, I made a MSDOS boot floppy with drivers for the CD-ROM.

The README file included with the documentation for making the floppy gives instructions on how to copy the files for Windows 9x installs and Windows NT4. I tried NT4, but it doesn't like the FAT32 partition and DOS doesn't recognize NTFS partitions.

I can't do a HDD install cause, well, my only other laptop with a HDD bay large enough for the Toshiba's hard disk, recently had an unfortunate encounter with a cup of water, frying the I/O controller.

Net install is also impossible because I... only have a WiFi connection.

I might be able to do a floppy install, except it's almost impossible on a Windows machine, and my only Linux machine running at the moment is an IBM ThinkPad R40E (running Ubuntu 8.04) lacks a floppy disk.

The PCMCIA CD-ROM can see all the files on the DSL disk, but I need instructions on what files and directories to copy and how to install it afterwards.

Any thoughts?
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Posted: Aug. 20 2008,20:20 QUOTE

Some thoughts:
- copy the files over to your dos partition and use something like loadlin for a frugal
- boot the livecd (see cheatcode frompcmcia I think)
- reformat your existing partions if you really need to do a traiditonal hdd install
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Posted: Aug. 20 2008,20:55 QUOTE

Loadlin worked!
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Posted: Aug. 20 2008,20:58 QUOTE

and now it's frozen after listing
"Processor 0 is Mobile Pentium MMX 233MHz
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Posted: Aug. 20 2008,21:37 QUOTE

Try a search, i.e. http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=8947
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