Re: Install Debian No CDROM, USB Floppy and Wireless Card
On 22 Apr 2005, at 8:46 am, Benedek Frank wrote: Hi I just got an old Toshiba Libretto L1 from Japan, that has no CDrom, nor LAN. I have a Netgear 401 card that works fine with Debian, at least when I do a CD install with Sarge, from the 110MB install CD, it detects my Card as Orinoco just fine and I can do a Network install. Now, I am asking if I can do the same booting from the Debian floppies? I do not have a USB CDrom, just a USB Floppy. Is it possible anyway to boot from a USB floppy? Years ago I installed Debian on a Libretto 100CT (and it's still going strong; puny it may be but it runs my home network - DHCP, DNS, web server, mail server, squid...) I have just found an old document where I described how I installed Debian on it. Bear in mind this is *very* old - I think it refers to Debian 2.0, but a similar procedure should still work these days. http://www.thecutts.org/debian/Linux-on-Libretto.html Actually, having just re-read that, most of that information is probably not relevant to the model of libretto you have, but still. Oh, and it doesn't mention the 8GB hard disk gotcha - when I upgraded the machine's drive to 12 GB, I found that because the BIOS still thought it was 8 GB, the hardware suspend-to-disk routine required unpartitioned space at the end of the bottom 8GB of the disk. I calculated that wrong the first time, and trashed the system. :-) Oh, and the PCMCIA floppy driver mentioned only works with 2.2 kernels. :-) Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts GPG: 1024/D FC81E159 5BA6 8CD4 2C57 9824 6638 C066 16E2 F4F5 FC81 E159 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cheap subnotebook
On 2 May 2005, at 6:36 am, Sharninder wrote: On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 09:58 +0930, Felix Hudson wrote: Its hard to recommend anything as i dont know what country you are in! I would not recommend the ibook as the ONLY wifi card you can use with it has no linux driver, and never will On 4/30/05, Julien Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: just looking for a cheap (<1000 EUR) subnotebook, running ca. 5-6 h on batteries any recommendations execpt the iBook 12''? ONLY wifi card ? Yes, if you're looking for pcmcia cards. But you can have USB dongles too providing the same functionality and they serve quite well too, IMHO. I would STRONGLY recommend the iBook 12". I'm using it right now and it rocks :) Which USB WiFi dongle do you use? Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts GPG: 1024/D FC81E159 5BA6 8CD4 2C57 9824 6638 C066 16E2 F4F5 FC81 E159 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: airport
On 10 May 2005, at 3:42 am, Emmanuele Salvati wrote: hello everyone. i want to install debian on my ibook G4. my problem is: will i be able to use the wireless? it has an airport wireless card. It doesn't have an Airport card. It has an Airport Extreme card. The distinction is important. Airport is supported, Airport Extreme is not. You will want to buy a supported USB wireless adapter, I suspect. Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts GPG: 1024/D FC81E159 5BA6 8CD4 2C57 9824 6638 C066 16E2 F4F5 FC81 E159 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is Sarge too slow for a Toshiba Portege 330CT?
On 11 May 2005, at 2:11 pm, Nacho wrote: Hi, I have a Toshiba Portege 330CT which actually runs Debian woody, its main features are this: Pentium 133 Mhz 32 Mb RAM 1'6 Gb Hard Disk The fact is that it's enough for how I use it, mainly text programs like mutt, slrn, w3m, bitch, vim, mp3blaster and sometimes firefox or staroffice. My doubt is if I should upgrade it to Sarge or not, my main concern is that it could be slower, maybe because the size of shared libraries or something similar; also it runs a 2.2.x kernel which supports all of the hardware it has, but not the IR port, anyway I think no kernel version does because Toshiba never released the information about that chip. I run Sarge on a similar vintage machine: Toshiba Libretto 100CT 133 MHz Pentium 64 MB RAM 12 GB hard disk I don't use it for any interactive work; it sits on a shelf with its lid shut, permanently powered from the mains (its battery is long since defunct - works well enough to protect the machine from power glitches, but that's it), and it runs my home network's core services; DNS/DHCP, apache, Exim, mailman, squid, samba etc. 64MB is a bit of a stretch for all of this, but it *does* manage it. Sarge requires a kernel 2.4.x or 2.6.x to run? or it can run with a old 2.2.x kernel? My Libretto actually got faster when I moved to a 2.6 kernel. I don't think you need worry on that score. For example, when I upgraded it from Debian 2.2 to Debian 3.0 I noted that it was much slower when using apt, because the list of packeges was much bigger and so it had to swap memory to be able to install new packages and so... That is a problem; dselect et al are *really* slow on my Libretto because of the memory issues, and I have twice as much memory as you... here's the output of free, on a typical day: 14:51:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 62192 59232 2960 0 1260 19740 -/+ buffers/cache: 38232 23960 Swap: 128512 36708 91804 So it is managing to use a fair bit of its RAM for disk cache, but there's also a goodly chunk of swap in use. I think 32 MB will be OK as long as you don't try running too much at a time. Also I have read that Sarge use much disk space that woody, so maybe I would also have problems with that... Possibly; I upgraded my Libretto from its original 2GB disk to a 12 GB disk, which is loads of room, but watch out for the old 8.1 GB BIOS disk size limit if you're going to use the laptop's hardware suspend-to-disk feature (assuming the Portege works the same way as the Libretto). The partition layout on my Libretto is a bit odd as a result: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 279 2241036b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 * 280 304 200812+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 305 320 128520 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda4 3211467 9213277+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 3211017 5598621 83 Linux /dev/hda610291467 3526267+ 83 Linux Notice the hole between cylinders 1017 and 1029 - this is the unpartitioned space at the 'end' of the disk, as far as the BIOS is concerned, and is where the BIOS will suspend the machine to if I put it to sleep. Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts GPG: 1024/D FC81E159 5BA6 8CD4 2C57 9824 6638 C066 16E2 F4F5 FC81 E159 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tosh libretto apm / battery / disk woes
On 15 May 2005, at 12:09 pm, Martin Hauser wrote: Hello, note that CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is on by default, but based on googling it should not be enabled for the libretto 1x0CT's. Still cannot get the suspend to disk to work, but at least I can unplug it from the mains cable now :) I've never seen any suspend from the Kernel working in any way... no chance at all. I've got an ibm thinkpad here and as i move around quite a lot, i've decided i need a solution. I found one: swsusp2. This works like a breeze for me and i've seen it working on other systems as well. Might be worth a try for you as well. http://swsusp.sourceforge.net would be the url for it. The libretto doesn't require any OS support for suspend-to-disk; the hardware can do it on its own. It suspends to the last 130MB or so of where the *BIOS* thinks the hard disk end; this is crucial because the BIOS has the old limitation where it thinks that all disks are <=8.1 GB. On my 100CT, I have the following partitions: Disk /dev/hda: 12.0 GB, 12072517632 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1467 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 279 2241036b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 * 280 304 200812+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 305 320 128520 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda4 3211467 9213277+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 3211017 5598621 83 Linux /dev/hda610291467 3526267+ 83 Linux You can see the hole for the machine to suspend to between hda5 and hda6. I spent a lot of time calculating where that hole needed to be, and the first time I did it I got it wrong and trashed the filesystem. :-) Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts GPG: 1024/D FC81E159 5BA6 8CD4 2C57 9824 6638 C066 16E2 F4F5 FC81 E159 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dear Beloved
On 15 May 2005, at 6:58 pm, Lee Turner wrote: By ignoring Nigerian 419-type scams ;) On 5/15/05, Chris P Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Would love to help, what can I do ? On Sat, 14 May 2005 19:02:56 -0100 " Adam Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Beloved , As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me,because, I believe everyone will die someday. My name is Adam Raymond. I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer.It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live,according to medical experts. Normally these things pass me by, but I found this one particularly obnoxious - my father died of oesophageal cancer 6 months ago. It's an extremely unpleasant way to die, and I find the use of it to gain sympathy for a scammer particularly low. I don't know why I even read it at all - I guess my eyes are quite attuned to the words 'oesophageal' and 'cancer' these days, especially since I used to be a cancer research scientist. Not that this has anything to do with Debian and laptops, so reply-to /dev/null I guess... Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts GPG: 1024/D FC81E159 5BA6 8CD4 2C57 9824 6638 C066 16E2 F4F5 FC81 E159 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
