T1910 - boot failed

1999-09-04 Thread alex aitkin
I have tried on many occasions to boot my Toshiba T1910 (4M Ram, 123M HDD) using the lowmem.bin boot disk - I always receive the message 'boot failed' - I have down loaded the lowmem.bin file from debian FTP on several occasions, and used various disks, and I have used rawrite2.exe from DOS, not ju

Toshiba Laptop (same problem)

1999-09-04 Thread Jim Pharis
I aquired a Toshiba T1910CS Satellite and I have been trying for 2 weeks trying to get Linux onto w/o any luck. I have done some research and found out that it wont boot from any disk larger the 720k. I heard that the only way to get linux on that machine is to take it apart, connect the laptop'

power saving(mobile-update daemon,...)

1999-09-04 Thread Werner Heuser
Hi, recently Stephane Bortzmeyer announced 'mobile-update' as an unofficial Debian package. I have installed the package. And purged it, to learn more about the 'dpkg-divert' mechanism. It restored the former 'update' package without any problems. Thanks Stephane. But still I have some questions:

Re: sorting packages by size

1999-09-04 Thread Drew Parsons
Karl Erickson wrote: > Drew Parsons: > >The installation went by so fast, and I was so in > >shock after having figured out the problem with the > >tecra images that I mentioned the other day,... > > is there an archive of this list? i'm just starting in linux, just starting > to install debian

Insertion of Ray link pcmcia card freezes system

1999-09-04 Thread ixx
--- Begin Message --- can type etc (it unfreezes) and I get the following error message: cs: unable to map card memory! cs unable to map card memory! memory_cs: RequestWindow: Resource in use I only have the one card. My system is: ThinkPad 755CD (40megs of ram) Debian 2

T1910 - boot failed

1999-09-04 Thread alex aitkin
I have tried on many occasions to boot my Toshiba T1910 (4M Ram, 123M HDD) using the lowmem.bin boot disk - I always receive the message 'boot failed' - I have down loaded the lowmem.bin file from debian FTP on several occasions, and used various disks, and I have used rawrite2.exe from DOS, not ju

Toshiba Laptop (same problem)

1999-09-04 Thread Jim Pharis
I aquired a Toshiba T1910CS Satellite and I have been trying for 2 weeks trying to get Linux onto w/o any luck. I have done some research and found out that it wont boot from any disk larger the 720k. I heard that the only way to get linux on that machine is to take it apart, connect the laptop'

power saving(mobile-update daemon,...)

1999-09-04 Thread Werner Heuser
Hi, recently Stephane Bortzmeyer announced 'mobile-update' as an unofficial Debian package. I have installed the package. And purged it, to learn more about the 'dpkg-divert' mechanism. It restored the former 'update' package without any problems. Thanks Stephane. But still I have some questions:

Re: sorting packages by size

1999-09-04 Thread Drew Parsons
Karl Erickson wrote: > Drew Parsons: > >The installation went by so fast, and I was so in > >shock after having figured out the problem with the > >tecra images that I mentioned the other day,... > > is there an archive of this list? i'm just starting in linux, just starting > to install debian

Insertion of Ray link pcmcia card freezes system

1999-09-04 Thread ixx
--- Begin Message --- can type etc (it unfreezes) and I get the following error message: cs: unable to map card memory! cs unable to map card memory! memory_cs: RequestWindow: Resource in use I only have the one card. My system is: ThinkPad 755CD (40megs of ram) Debian 2