I have installed Debian Potato and Woody on a Toshiba Tecra 730xcdt. It will boot from the external drive and read the select bay cdrom. Check your bios settings to make sure the boot order is a:, c:.
----- Original Message ----- From: "alberto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 2:33 PM Subject: Selectable bay on Tecra 730CDT and modules.dep > > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Debian on an old Tecra 730CDT and I have 2 major > problems, so far: > > 1) > The laptop has a Selectable Bay where you either slot the Floppy drive or the > CD-ROM. It also have an external floppy. > I can't boot fron the external floppy, I put the floppy in the bay and I > can't use the CDROM to install the base and the rest. > Does anybody know if it is possible to boot from the external floppy? > > 2) > Anyway, for this first time I installed from floppies. I can't get too far > though. > After reboot, infact I get thousands of messages about modprobe being unable > to open dependency file in /libmodules/2.2.17/modules.dep > Those messages make it impossible to continue. > How can I stop them? > > thanks. > alberto > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
