Gidday... I'm wanting to configure my Toshiba Portege 3110CT to dual boot debian/win2k. At the moment its running XP (very, very bloddy slowly), and I have two partitions - a 4.5gig fat32 (c:), and a 1.2gig fat32 (d:). Basically, I want to install win2k to the 4.5gig, and erase the existing 1.2gig fat32 and turn this into linux native/swap partitions.
Under normal circumstances, this would be damn easy. However, the portege's do not have internal cdrom or floppy drives. I have no floppy drive, and no way to access one, and the cdrom drive is external (pcmcia), and even though I know linux does support it, the toshiba bios does not allow me to boot from this. This is the latest flashed firmware. The main issue is actually getting linux onto the machine. Somehow I need to invoke the debian install program. I can't drop to DOS, as I can't think of any way to do this, so loadlin isn't an option either. I can't boot from cd, I can't run loadlin, and I can't boot from floppy disk. Any ideas on how I'd go around this? I'm completely lost. Even going FreeBSD would be an option - I'm just keen to get some kind of BSD/Linux on it. I don't think this helps the situation though. Thanks. - xfesty --=-- :: Ryan Verner :: xfesty/irc.oddbox.org :: :: ICQ :: 76626240 :: :: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :: :: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :: -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
