Lilo, the woman that ruined my life.

[Scott H]

> From: Rob Wultsch <robert.wultsch@asu.edu>
> Howdy. I have a old laptop (toshiba 420 CDT,
> p1-100, 40 MB, 20 GB, ) that I would like to 
> get working.
> I however do not have a boot medium, so I have
> tried installing various OS's on a  hard 
> drive and then transplanting them into the
> laptop. Under Windows it will not recognive the
> 
> hd as a valid system disk. Under linux I get
> the following:
> 
> "L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
> 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 
> 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
> 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 
> 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
> 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 
> 40 40 40 40 40 40 40This BASIC was aborted,
> because this machine has
> no ROM BASIC.
> 
> Use Toshiba's BASIC"
> 
> I have played with lilo untilt the cows came
> home and started to mew telling me to ask for 
> help.
> 
> -------------------------
> Robert James Wultsch III

I have both an internal and an external floppy
drive unit with dongle for my Toshiba 440CDT you
could borrow to set this up.  

/scott




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