On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 02:00:36PM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote: > I would agree. We can't "Be everything to everyone". I've just > recently acquired a laptop (my first!). It's a Toshiba T3400CT, an old > 486/sx with a whopping 6.5" /color/ LCD! ;-) I've been able to boot it > with tomsrtbt, but the debian rescue discs, even the lowmem ones from > slink, do not work. DOS boots fine and the NetBSD discs boot as well > (but I don't fancy a floppy installation). > > At 4 MB of ram and a picky BIOS, my best bet for getting this thing > installed w/a base Woody installation is to create a custom boot disc > that mounts an NFS root. To do so, it has to run pcmcia for the new > Linksys NIC I purchased for it.
I used to have one of these, I think (actually it may have been a 340 something). But with the colour screen and 4MB RAM. Slink was the *only* linux I could get onto it. I used a floppy boot & PLIP install. That's what got me started on Debian. What fails on yours? -- Nick Phillips -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caution: Keep out of reach of children. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
