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I just got an ANCIENT toshiba satellite T1910CS. I have no idea what the specs are, but it is OLLLDDDDD. Anyway, there's no cd drive, only floppy. I know you ...
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- 02-24-2008 #1Just Joined!
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install with floppies only?
I just got an ANCIENT toshiba satellite T1910CS. I have no idea what the specs are, but it is OLLLDDDDD. Anyway, there's no cd drive, only floppy. I know you can install DeLi linux using floppies alone, but when i download the files that are to be put on 1.44mb floppies, they are 1.4 mb in size. However, a formatted floppy only has 1.38 mb of free space. I know that one of the files (root.img) is an img file that needs to be put onto a floppy using something like rawwrite, so i did that. But what about the other three files, which have .dsk extensions? what do i do? thanks
- 02-24-2008 #2Linux Newbie
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Hi,
You do the same with the .dsk as .img. you can use either dd in linux or rawwrite in Windows.
To use dd it would be for example:
dd if=deliboot.dsk of=/dev/fd0
Hope this helps.
- 02-24-2008 #3Just Joined!
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Ok, thanks! I'll try that. For some reason, it seems like the laptop wont even boot from cd, even though i have the bios to boot from floppy first.


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