installing to Toshiba laptop from floppy

[Thomas Mondoshawan Tate]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:22:56AM -0400, Scott Henderson wrote:
> I've acquired a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT laptop and
> would like to install Linux on it... but it isn't
> capable of booting to a CD, and the CD and floppy
> drives fit into the same, single bay.  So I can use one
> or the other, not both (don't have a connector cable).
> How can I    1) create a install disk to begin an
> install, and 2) swap out to the CD and have it
> recognized to run the install?  Or am I going at this
> wrong?  How can I install to such a machine?

Depends on the distro you're trying to install. If you've a network card,
that's even better -- network installs tend to work rather well now in
recent distro versions. If you're running RedHat, get to a DOS prompt with
the CD in the CD drive, and (assuming the CD is drive D:) do this:

C:\> d:
D:\> cd autoboot
D:\AUTOBOOT> autoboot

I might be a bit fuzzy about where the location of this is -- autoboot is a
batch file that uses loadlin to boot off of the CD from DOS, so it should
work for virtually any friendly CD drive. Don't try this from Windoze,
though -- it'll crash faster than you can say "Bill Gates". =op

-- 
Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
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