There's a few ways to do this, including the old DOS partition and syslinux tricks, etc...
But I got lazy when I realized that RedHat's installer works from a USB CD-Rom drive. I plugged a USB CD-Rom into the Portege, put one of their boot floppies in the floppy drive (that BIOS won't boot from a USB device, obviously...) and loaded a tiny RedHat partition so I could jump from that to Debian. (GRIN....) Nate On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 04:28:59PM -0300, Pablo Lorenzzoni wrote: > Hello ALL! > > I am trying to install Debian 3.0 on a Toshiba Port?g? 3010CT, but > I have no floppies or CD-ROM in this machine (it is 2nd-handed). > > I've copied disks-i386/current into the Windows partition and I've managed to > resize partitions with Partition Magic. Now, when I run loadlin (install.bat) > it gives me a Kernel Panic (<some data about FAT> and Unable to mount root on > 01:00) and stop. It happens with every bf flavor except bf2.4 (which is not > supported by loadlin and halt a lot before loading the kernel). > > Does anyone have any ideas? I've managed to create an ext2 partition (don't > ask me how!). The only access I have is through it's network connection under > Windows. I can transfer anything to the FAT partition (and then copy it with > explore2fs to the ext2 partition - that's not safe, though, according to the > explore2fs homepage). > > I've run out of ideas... *please* anyone? > > []s > > Pablo > > [Please CC-me: I get direct emails a lot before the list] > > -- > Pablo Lorenzzoni (Spectra) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GnuPG Key ID 268A084D at search.keyserver.net > Webpage: http://people.debian.org/~spectra/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
