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Manticore-X
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 Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject: Heres a toughy! |
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Hello,
I have an old toshiba laptop that I would like to install gentoo on. Right now the HD is blank, no windows, nothing. Heres the hard part. It has no cd-rom, no USB, no ethernet. The only things I have are a floppy drive and a wireless card. The question now is, can I make or edit a linux floppy to have wireless modules? If there is a way please help me. I have tried to find an already made one, but the few I found wont let me mount my harddrive. Any help would be wonderful. Thanks |
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jkt
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Duck-Billed Platypus
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Shit man, that's crazy...
Anyway, this might help, I hope. Take out the hard drive, plug it into a newer/better computer, and install it from there. That way you get the benefit of reduced compile time. But I'm not sure if you can do that... If you can't, if you have another laptop somewhere, you could plug it into there... Hope it helps, and good luck 
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jkt
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| laptop HDDs are AFAIK normal IDE drives, so there should be no problem. |
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areu
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I have the same issue. I recently acquired an old IBM 701c. Nothing but a floppy and a pcmcia slot to install from. I have wireless and ethernet pcmcia cards. To this point I haven't found anything I can boot from Gentoo. Also, the HD is only 500mb so maybe Gentoo isn't going to happen on this laptop.
AND I don't want to spend the money on a external pcmcia cdrom. |
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d_adams
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 3:14 am Post subject: ide adapter |
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This might help?
pcimicro.com
Is a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter to plug a laptop drive into a regular ide cable. Hook it up in your regular desktop pc, partition and format the drive and go from there. And it's cheap!
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ginji
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| jkt wrote: | | laptop HDDs are AFAIK normal IDE drives, so there should be no problem. |
nope, they're smaller, and have a different plug... so that's not possible without a convertor |
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Jazz
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Umm did u try the tomsrbt linux ? that fitson a single floppy, and i think it has ethernet modules..
Worth giving a shot !
BYe,
Jazz
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Rainmaker
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| Duck-Billed Platypus wrote: | Shit man, that's crazy...
Anyway, this might help, I hope. Take out the hard drive, plug it into a newer/better computer, and install it from there. That way you get the benefit of reduced compile time. But I'm not sure if you can do that... If you can't, if you have another laptop somewhere, you could plug it into there... Hope it helps, and good luck |
You can, just don't use -march in your CFLAGS if the processor types are different.
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jkt
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| Rainmaker wrote: | | Duck-Billed Platypus wrote: | Shit man, that's crazy...
Anyway, this might help, I hope. Take out the hard drive, plug it into a newer/better computer, and install it from there. That way you get the benefit of reduced compile time. But I'm not sure if you can do that... If you can't, if you have another laptop somewhere, you could plug it into there... Hope it helps, and good luck |
You can, just don't use -march in your CFLAGS if the processor types are different. |
of course you can and should use -march of you old computer. |
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