[Sheflug] Re: Booting from CD on Toshiba laptop

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk> writes:

    Richard> Baz
    >> However, I've been unable to boot my Debian Potato CD on the
    >> machine.

    Richard> I've had a lot of problems with non-bootable Debian CDs.
    Richard> Two years of it :) Don't ask me why I just don't know.

    Richard> You shouldn't be having problems with Toshiba hardware.
    Richard> It works with just about anything.  If it doesn't work
    Richard> with a Red Hat or an SuSE CD then it might just be a
    Richard> hardware problem.  Sounds more like an IRQ / DMA address
    Richard> problem though.

    Richard> There's a lot of second user Toshibas out there that work
    Richard> very well.  IBM stinkpads as well.  Maybe another one ?

    Richard> My own second user notebook was something of a lucky dip.
    Richard> For once I did get lucky.  USB works fine - haven't tried
    Richard> a web cam on it yet.  Irda is good.  Sound could be
    Richard> better.  Works very well with a PCMCIA network card.

    Richard> You didn't put MS Windows into it did you ?  Shame on
    Richard> you.

How dare you suggest such a heinous thing! :-)

Nope, the machine had been formatted so it only drops to a Win95/DOS prompt.

I will be putting either Debian or Redhat or to it, probably Debian.

As far as the Debian CDs go, I also tried some RH 7.1 disks as
well. These disks are all from Linux Emporium, rather than just random
CDRW, and have worked on every other machine I've tried.

I will take it back and see if I can get another CDROM drive, or
possibly another machine all together.
I did have a suspicion it was a dead drive when I was trying to get it
to go earlier, but this is the first old laptop I've tried to work on.

One bargin I did get was a 3Com 10/100 MegaHertz PCMCIA card - Ł20!
Looks new, and 3Com cards have a lifetime warranty, so no problems
there.
We actually use them at work - but they pay Ł105 a pop :-)

Cheers.

Baz.
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