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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> > Can you boot DSL from the CD on your Libretto using loadlin after you copy
> > the kernel from /boot to your baslin directory?  If the card still won't
> > work with DSL on your computer, it is a hardware problem, and you might
> > try a bridge instead, or a different card.  If it does work, then you can
> > figure out how they did it.   Try their kernel instead of mine in BL.

> Unfortunatly I don't think it would work. First problem would be finding a
> dos pcmcia driver for the cdrom drive, and I can't identify it - it's one
> made in the far east with no real brand name on it. Also the liberetto I
> have only has 16MB, so memory might be a problem. And since this is a live
> CD won't it need to load even more into memory and/or decompress it? Also if
> DSL needs to access the cdrom drive that won't  be easy, as the toshiba only
> has 1 pcmcia card slot.

Maybe you can boot BL3 with the DSL kernel (it may include the CD-ROM 
modules in it and you would only need the pcmcia modules for the CD-ROM
drive for BL3), mount the CD, then chroot to DSL?  It helps that the DSL 
pcmcia modules work with BL3.  (Continue using my 2.4.31 kernel).

mount /dev/hdc /mnt
chroot /mnt /bin/bash -login
mount /proc

This should put you into console mode, to try out the network card.

I did this to run BL3 from a camera memory card (in 8MB space) or a 100MB 
zip drive (both times using special boot disks contributed by another list 
member David Moberg).

If DSL works with the network card, and you can't figure out how they did 
it so as to transfer this to BL, you can try installing it from the iso 
image to an ext2 partition from within BL.

http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Loadlin_Install

To copy from an iso image get it onto your computer (parallel transfer 
cable, parallel zip drive if you have parport, burn a CD, or however you 
got BL on there in the first place):

mount -o loop dsl*.iso /mnt
ls /mnt
KNOPPIX index.html lost+found
Inside KNOPPIX directory is a 50MB KNOPPIX file which I don't know what to 
do with.  It won't mount -o loop.  bogus logical sector size.  Could this 
be ext3?  'you must specify the filesystem type'.  My kernel does not 
support that.  (Try theirs?).

Try to follow their directions. It looks complicated but you seem 
experienced with linux.  They talk about a folder 'boot' which I don't 
see.  boot.img must be the boot floppy (no use to you).

You will need a 32MB swap partition or file.

Someone else got Opera running on their Libretto with 16MB, slowly, and 
links faster.  Links2 with svgalib instead of X uses less RAM.

> ljones

Sindi

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