Re: Installing Debian on IBM Thinkpad X24
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: So I got myself one of these nifty things. It's really nice but it won't be perfect until I can get Debian on it. Thanks to all those who replied. I now have the thinkpad dual-booting between Win2K (though I don't imagine much use for it.) and Debian. Hooking up a CD or floppy drive I'd already rejected as it would have been too boring and cost extra money. The suggestion to use a USB keychain drive was a good one. I definitely want to get one of these to store my GPG key and other sensitive data on but I'll do that later some time. I decided to go with Installing via TFTP. It is very straightforward (though the documentation I found was as usual not 100% accurate.) The one hurdle I faced was shrinking the windows partition to make room for Linux. Luckily IBM uses FAT32 instead of NTFS so I was able to use GNU parted. The Debian boot floppies don't have parted (the new Installer I'm told will.) so I had to actually start the installation process with Red Hat 9. After resizing and partitioning the drive I stopped that and started the Debian install. It went without a hitch. Even installing LILO on the MBR was uneventful which impressed me because I recall you had to do some voodoo with boot sectors to get Windows and Linux to co-exist in the past. After installing a minimal woody system I dist-upgraded it to sarge. So far though the only things I haven't configured are the wireless networking and the modem. The first should be very easy but the second could be a problem as it is a winmodem. But neither is very important to me right now. Everything else configured without a hitch. I'll write a full step-by-step HOWTO soon. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Debian on IBM Thinkpad X24
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: So I got myself one of these nifty things. It's really nice but it won't be perfect until I can get Debian on it. The problem is doesn't have a floppy or cd drive. I did notice it can boot from the network. Would it be possible to do some kind of TFTP type deal? It's running Win2k now fwiw. (I know I could just get a PCMCIA cd-drive but where's the fun in that?) I have a Thinkpad X22 running Debian unstable. I used a adapter to connect the laptop HD to a standard PC and do the install via the CD-ROM. These adapters are available at Comp USA or via mail order. You could also buy or borrow a USB Flash Key thingie, and copy the Debian boot floppies to it. Hit F12 to boot from removeable devices and continue the install that way, or borrow a USB cd-rom ow writer and boot from that with a Debina CD. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing Debian on IBM Thinkpad X24
So I got myself one of these nifty things. It's really nice but it won't be perfect until I can get Debian on it. The problem is doesn't have a floppy or cd drive. I did notice it can boot from the network. Would it be possible to do some kind of TFTP type deal? It's running Win2k now fwiw. (I know I could just get a PCMCIA cd-drive but where's the fun in that?) -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Debian on IBM Thinkpad X24
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:36:39PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: | So I got myself one of these nifty things. It's really nice but it won't | be perfect until I can get Debian on it. The problem is doesn't have a | floppy or cd drive. I did notice it can boot from the network. Would it | be possible to do some kind of TFTP type deal? Possibly. Read through the diskless howto, then set up your current Debian system to be the server on the network. Then see what happens when you boot the laptop. | (I know I could just get a PCMCIA cd-drive but where's the fun in that?) Or put the hard drive in a machine with a cd or floppy drive :-). (I've done that a couple times because its the only way on a machine with 8MB RAM, and its the only sane way to dist-upgrade on that machine (until I set up NFS so I could just chroot to the router's root fs)) -D -- Microsoft is to operating systems security what McDonald's is to gourmet cooking http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
