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Posted: Jan. 02 2005,01:58 QUOTE
i have a toshiba 610ct.....anyways i only have a pcmcia cd-rom.....it doesnt have a floppy drive, jsut the pcmcia cr-rom drive.

i guess at one point it DID have a floppy drive, but it attached via a small port......looks like a very thin, and small scsi port.....VERY SMALL......

anyways i just want to know if DSL will boot from that...or am i kinda screwed?..........the lappy has WIN98 on it atm....and i guess i could pick up a pcmcia ethernet card, if that would help any


plz let me know what to expect......if it will work at all.....thnx
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Posted: Jan. 02 2005,02:29 QUOTE
well, after looking into this further, it seems that only the floppy drive is bootable, and i dont have the floppy drive...only the pcmcia cdrom..........bummer, is there any whay that i can isntall dsl from the windows partition, and after, remove the windows partition and  jsut use DSL????



*edit*, now that i think about it, shouldnt i just be able to buy a laptop HDD to ide HDD converter, then install it from another computer, and then just put it back in this one???


or (if possible), would instslling from the windows partition be an eisier route?
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Posted: Jan. 02 2005,05:35 QUOTE
The "install it from another computer" route is probably the best one.

You can also copy the DSL files over to your C:\ drive ,  create a boot floppy on another PC and then strip out the linux24 and minirt.gz files and boot from the Win98 F8 boot menu "Command prompt only" mode with the loadlin program.
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Gwildor
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Posted: Jan. 02 2005,05:53 QUOTE
well, then for your help, but i just ordered this
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Pentium II 333MHz CPU with 128 MB RAM, 14.1" Active Matrix Screen, 4.0 GB Hard Drive (1) 3.5'' Floppy Drive, No CD/DVD-ROM Drive, Trackpoint Pointing Device, 1 Serial Port and 1 Parallel Port, USB Ports Included, Modem of Unknown Speed Included, No Network Adapter, Two PCM Slots, Integrated Sound System with Speakers, Date Manufactured Unknown, Power Supply Is Switchable, Multimedia Expansion Base Included with Unit
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and these are the specs for the multimedia expansion base
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Multimedia Expansion Base with a No Active Bus, (1) 3.5'' Floppy Drive, CD-ROM Drive, No Network Adapter, No PCM Slots, No Parallel Ports, No Serial Ports, USB Ports Included, Integrated Sound System with Speakers
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all for a grand total of $130.50  USD

i think thatl do just fine........
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cybered77
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Posted: Jan. 07 2005,07:46 QUOTE
Hello

I have a 610ct actually running both DSL and Win98, I did the instalation with the hdlaptop-to-ide adapter on a desktop machine, then i just reconfigure the dsl on the laptop and it works great (well maybe the only fault is the 640x480 screen resolution) but anyway it runs great, even wirelessly with a orinoco lucent silver, and also with a Enterasys Roamabout (yes! this enterasys card like the Buffalo's, some DELL's, and IBM,s are orinoco silver's with just another brand name)

by the way try to install DSL on your 610ct, i'm sure you won't be disapointed :D

ED
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