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:.
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From: "alberto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent:
> btw, I did find one thing that you can do with APM. If the apm.o module is
> loaded, shutdown actually halts the system. If it isn't, shutdown leaves
> you at a "Power Off" prompt :-)
(Whoops, I forgot to CC my last reply to the list.)
Powering the machine off is all that ACPI seems
Actually, just tonight I learned that win2k (and probably ME + XP) do
their suspend to disk into a file - hiberfile.sys I believe. So it seems
to me that whatever the case is with suspending to disk, ACPI seems to
'allow' more control for where the OS writes it (perhaps to avoid the
whole bios lim
> btw, I did find one thing that you can do with APM. If the apm.o module is
> loaded, shutdown actually halts the system. If it isn't, shutdown leaves
> you at a "Power Off" prompt :-)
(Whoops, I forgot to CC my last reply to the list.)
Powering the machine off is all that ACPI seem
Actually, just tonight I learned that win2k (and probably ME + XP) do
their suspend to disk into a file - hiberfile.sys I believe. So it seems
to me that whatever the case is with suspending to disk, ACPI seems to
'allow' more control for where the OS writes it (perhaps to avoid the
whole bios li
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
ca
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
c
From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Joseph Fannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/02/2002 (07:23) :
> >When I say the BIOS is broken, I mean anything involving APM --
> > even reading battery status -- causes a kernel OOPS, which when
> > traced, fails when calling the system BIOS. A
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 02:30:44PM +0200, Pasi Savolainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Tim van Erven wrote:
> Mozilla/Netscape 6.2 on new machines is neither slow nor buggy.
> Just try it in my Pentium 100, 32MB RAM.
I do not like using proprietary software. But th
Has anybody else experienced that when Gnome is starting up the
x-window-manager seems to hang for some seconds before sawfish is
started. This doesn't happen on my other computer and they have the same
setup exceps that this isn't a laptop and have different hardware (a
750MHz versus 850Mhz in the
From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Joseph Fannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/02/2002 (07:23) :
> >When I say the BIOS is broken, I mean anything involving APM --
> > even reading battery status -- causes a kernel OOPS, which when
> > traced, fails when calling the system BIOS.
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 02:30:44PM +0200, Pasi Savolainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Tim van Erven wrote:
> Mozilla/Netscape 6.2 on new machines is neither slow nor buggy.
> Just try it in my Pentium 100, 32MB RAM.
I do not like using proprietary software. But t
Has anybody else experienced that when Gnome is starting up the
x-window-manager seems to hang for some seconds before sawfish is
started. This doesn't happen on my other computer and they have the same
setup exceps that this isn't a laptop and have different hardware (a
750MHz versus 850Mhz in th
Beat Bolli wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I'm trying to install Woody on this laptop. It has a floppy drive xor a
>
> CD-ROM drive; the two can't be used at the same time.
>
> So I started with Toms Root and Boot disk (http://www.toms.net/rb), used it
>
> to partition and format the hard disk and to wg
Joseph Fannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/02/2002 (07:23) :
>When I say the BIOS is broken, I mean anything involving APM --
> even reading battery status -- causes a kernel OOPS, which when
> traced, fails when calling the system BIOS. Apparently things have
> been this way with every BIO
cyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/02/2002 (07:23) :
> not flaming or attacking or anything like that - just being cautionary...
>
> No, don't delete that - 10:1 chances are that you have 32mb of ram and
> that's your suspend partition - when you suspend to disk, the contents of
> your ram have t
Beat Bolli wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I'm trying to install Woody on this laptop. It has a floppy drive xor a
>
> CD-ROM drive; the two can't be used at the same time.
>
> So I started with Toms Root and Boot disk (http://www.toms.net/rb), used it
>
> to partition and format the hard disk and to w
Joseph Fannin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/02/2002 (07:23) :
>When I say the BIOS is broken, I mean anything involving APM --
> even reading battery status -- causes a kernel OOPS, which when
> traced, fails when calling the system BIOS. Apparently things have
> been this way with every BI
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