HD Install :: Toshiba 3010 install



I am having a problem trying to get DSL to install to my old Toshiba notebook. Currently I am running win98 on the notebook and so want to set DSL up as a dual boot.
This laptop cannot be set to boot from cd and since it uses a pcmcia cd drive, no boot disk I have found will load pcmcia driver modules so I can boot from it. I tried for awhile to get pcmcia to work, I read as much as I could from the debian help files as I could find. I even tried using RH pcmcia boot disks.
Having all but given up with pcmcia, I unzipped the knoppix image to my c drive in the dir c:\knoppix. Using the boot disk created from the boot image that comes with the distro, knoppix was mounted and off I went. I went to run the install script and pointed the install at /dev/hda2, a 300 MB ext2 partition that I created with PM 7. The install is able to set up the ext2 file system and I think it begins to copy files, however about 2 minutes into the install it stops and the machine eventually grinds to a halt.

So my questions are:
1. Anyone know how I can install DSL?
2. Should I try loadlin?
3. Why does the install stop?

Any clues would be more than welcome as I really want to install this distro
Me too, I thought I had cracked the install fom the Dos partition into a dedicated Linux partition but after a smooth start and error free period of data loading, the little 'wheel' stops and it all hangs.  Any help much appreciated.
Hi there, maybe i can be of some help

i installed dsl on my 3010ct using an adaptor so plugging it in my workstation and installing dsl, ten put the laptop hd back in the 3010ct, everything works, exept my nic doesnt work. in knoppix it works though

grtz
Quote (Redwolf @ Nov. 09 2003,05:45)
I am having a problem trying to get DSL to install to my old Toshiba notebook. Currently I am running win98 on the notebook and so want to set DSL up as a dual boot.
This laptop cannot be set to boot from cd and since it uses a pcmcia cd drive, no boot disk I have found will load pcmcia driver modules so I can boot from it. I tried for awhile to get pcmcia to work, I read as much as I could from the debian help files as I could find. I even tried using RH pcmcia boot disks.
Having all but given up with pcmcia, I unzipped the knoppix image to my c drive in the dir c:\knoppix. Using the boot disk created from the boot image that comes with the distro, knoppix was mounted and off I went. I went to run the install script and pointed the install at /dev/hda2, a 300 MB ext2 partition that I created with PM 7. The install is able to set up the ext2 file system and I think it begins to copy files, however about 2 minutes into the install it stops and the machine eventually grinds to a halt.

So my questions are:
1. Anyone know how I can install DSL?
2. Should I try loadlin?
3. Why does the install stop?

Any clues would be more than welcome as I really want to install this distro

I have the same problem with a Toshiba Satellite 110CS : I boot from the floppy and load DSL from c:\KNOPPIX;
When I try to install to hard disk in /dev/hda2, after 2 minutes it stops and the PC hangs.

Did you solve the problem?
Here is a snippet of modified code that you may want to try with the install script:
--------------code snipped--------------------
echo "Now the root filesystem is filled with data..."
#(cd /KNOPPIX ; cp -a * $TR ; sync) &
cd /KNOPPIX
tar czvf $TR/dsl.tgz *
sync
sync
cd $TR
tar zxvf dsl.tgz
sync
sync  
#rotdash $!
# two beeps
echo -ne "\007" >/dev/tty1 ; usleep 500000
-------------code snipped-----------------

Peter Sieg, has been doing some experimenting with the script on old notebooks.  He said that the cp -a  command would hang on him (memory problem?), but by modifying the script to use two tar commands  it fixed the problem.  The drawback of this approach is that it temporarily takes an additional 50M of space while installing.

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