On Fri Apr 12, 2002 at 11:35:31AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > I just tested it on all the bootable x86 systems in my house: > ... > > Toshiba 490CDT Satellite Pro Laptop: Works > > That's good news. What was your success booting the Potato CD on this > laptop? In my experience, the Toshiba laptops (the 490CDT in particular) > would not boot the Potato CD. As far as I'm aware, this was because the > boot image on the CD was based on a 2.88MB floppy image, where the Toshiba > laptops could only handle a 1.44MB image. > > I'm impressed to hear Toshiba laptops can boot normally again :)
I didn't try Potato on this laptop. Its on loan to me while doing some software development. But at least with the new isolinux boot CD, I just dropped in the CD and it booted just fine into the installer with both the default idepci and with the bf24 kernels.... -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--
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