Hello!
I have been trying to install Sarge on Toshiba Libretto 110ct for weeks with no success. I gravely need someone to take me through it, as I feel that I've tried everything and can't think of anything else to do. The laptop had an empty hard drive and external PCMCIA floppy and cd drives. It cannot boot from cd drive, only from floppy or hard drive. I installed dos on it and formatted the hard drive. At first, I tried to do an install using only floppies. I made attempts to install both potato and sarge that way, with the same result: after booting with a linux boot floppy, the machine demands a root floppy but never releases the floppy drive (it continues to spin). When, ignoring that, I pull the boot floppy and replace it with the root floppy, it responds with a bunch of queer messages and "unable to mount root floppy" etc. Somewhere I read that initial linux boot floppy does not have the pcmcia drivers on it, so the machine may not be able to communicate with its floppy in such an install. Correct me if I am wrong. So, after a lot of messing around I installed windows 3.1 and pcmcia cdrom drivers for dos which allowed me to copy the whole debian disk 1 onto the harddrive. I followed the instructions in the installation manual for a hard drive install. I copied loadlin, vmlinuz, initrd.gz and the .iso file for the 1st of the sarge install cds onto c:\ and tried installing linux by invoking loadlin c:\vmlinuz root=/dev/ram rw initrd=c:\initrd.gz. This results in scanning of vmlinuz and initrd, with a bunch of boot messages and finally cramfs: wrong magic kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 01:00. I tried changing the root= parameter, I downloaded vmlinuz and initrd.gs from sarge's hd-media subfolder, but all that results in kernel panic and inability to mount root fs. I copied root.img onto c:\ with no results. I tried using sbm to tell the laptop to boot from the cd, but sbm cannot see the device. I guess it is not an ide. I know I am pretty clueless when it comes to linux, but I have installed debian on a few machines before, and I am able to follow the instructions.. What am I missing? I am stumped. Please help. Thanks, Luda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
