[PADS] Re: Libretto 100ct Install-Disks

[Michael Leone]

Chris Fearnley said:
> Since we will learn as much or more from failure, maybe we should try
> anyway!

I'm still game. However, if anyone has a SCSI PCMCIA card and external
SCSI CD drive we could borrow for the installation, that would probably
make things a *lot* easier (at least to install).

>
> Are others interested in trying ... even if we fail?
>
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:04:50PM -0500, Mike Leone wrote:
>> This perhaps bodes not well for our next meeting, and installing
>> Debian on a Libretto 100CT ...
>>
>>
>> ----- Forwarded message from Johan Romin <johan@debian.as> -----
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>> > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 19:15:36 +0200
>> > From: Johan Romin <johan@debian.as>
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>> > Subject: Re: Libretto 100ct Install-Disks
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>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > > I searched the net for 2 hours to find anyone who has installed a
>> debian linux on a Libretto 100ct, just using a set of floppys. The
>> result is, that one guy managed it but serveral guys not. So here
>> is my question: Is there a set of floppys available to start the
>> installation on a libretto ? The known problem is the
>> PCMCIA-Bridge used in the libretto, that shouldn't work, after
>> reading the first disc.
>> > There is no install discs with support for the libretto floppydrive
>> that I know of, I solved the problem by using dos fdisk and split my
>> disk in desired partions, and using the swap partion for temporary
>> storage of the debian base system, and once I had everything up and
>> running reformated that partion as a linux swap.
>> >
>> > One might make install discs if you patched a pcmcia based floppy
>> install disc with the patch for using the pcmcia floppy drive for
>> librettos. But I haven't tested that so I don't know if it would
>> work..
>> >
>> > good luck..
>> >
>> > 	/Johan
>> >
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