Re: Laptop Installation Problem

2005-09-16 Thread Kent West
Scarletdown wrote: >On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 10:42 +0100, Pooly wrote: > > >>2005/9/16, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >>>Anyway, I currently have Windows 98SE working fine on it. However, I >>>want to make it full 100% Debian (etch which would be upgraded to sid). >>>The CD ROM drive

Re: Laptop Installation Problem

2005-09-16 Thread Scarletdown
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 10:42 +0100, Pooly wrote: > 2005/9/16, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Anyway, I currently have Windows 98SE working fine on it. However, I > > want to make it full 100% Debian (etch which would be upgraded to sid). > > The CD ROM drive is not bootable, so I made a set o

Re: Laptop Installation Problem

2005-09-16 Thread Pooly
2005/9/16, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is proving to be one of my most challenging installations yet. I > just recently became the owner of an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 425CDT > laptop (Pentium 100, 800MB hard drive, 24MB RAM which will eventually > get upgraded to its maximum 40MB, CD

Re: Laptop Installation problem

1998-10-14 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
It worked well for me by: 1. Made sure there was spare disk space for a linux ext2 partition (though experts can install debian through umsdos). 2.Copying all the installation disks to my FAT16 partition. 3. Since I was using Win95, rebooted, holding down F8 and then selected the boot option (para

Re: Laptop Installation problem

1998-10-14 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, I was able to install linux on IBM ThinkPad 380XD, thru loadlin. Install.bat worked fine. (Booting from diskette or LILO was hopeless.) But important thing is that you have FAT16, not FAT32. You may prepare a little FAT16 partition (using FIPS for example), format it for FAT16 and put