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Toshiba 430CDT owners in Contact :)

Decided to send email to the user once i saw the user on linux laptop groups.. he also owned the same laptop model like mine and sucessfully install linux :)


On Tuesday 08 April 2003 08:48, you wrote:
> Hi, My name is Rezal. Im from Malaysia. The reason i
> mailed you this mail.. is to ask you regarding to your
> article Configuring Pikachu dated Friday, November
> 12, 1999.
> For your information.. ive also owned this model.. and
> ive been thinking of installing Linux on this machine.
> But im having trouble installing it because my floppy
> drive had problem reading the disk. So now i can't
> boot the linux boot disk in order for me to run linux
> installation. And also .. as you know this model
> cannot be boot thru CD.. just Floppy--> HD or
> HD-->Floppy.
> So i would to ask you.., if there is a way to install
> it. and is it possible to run Redhat 6.2 as i only
> have 16meg on that machine. I havent upgrade anything
> on that machine.


This is his reply :)

Hello Rezal,

Looking over the dates of the four documents, I gather you're talking
about Configuring a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT, using Mandrake 6.0.
I'll try to help, but it's been a long time since I owned that
machine; I traded it for the Toshiba Portégé 320CT.

Also, I haven't run Mandrake or Red Hat in years; I use Debian almost
exclusively these days. But some things are universal.

> But im having trouble installing it because my floppy
> drive had problem reading the disk. So now i can't
> boot the linux boot disk in order for me to run linux
> installation. And also .. as you know this model
> cannot be boot thru CD.. just Floppy--> HD or
> HD-->Floppy.

Boot floppies are very sensitive to flaws in the media or formatting.
It's rare that a floppy drive actually goes bad itself; it's almost
always the diskette. Try making another boot floppy on a fresh
diskette.

> So i would to ask you.., if there is a way to install
> it. and is it possible to run Redhat 6.2 as i only
> have 16meg on that machine. I havent upgrade anything
> on that machine.

If you get a good boot floppy, I'd say you're in business. I don't
know about Red Hat (I think the latest REd Hat is version 9) or
Mandrake, but Debian you can install directly from the net. I do it
all the time, even with a modem.

16 Meg isn't a lot of RAM these days. A console based GNU/Linux
should work fine, but if you want to run stuff like X or KDE, it will
swap like mad and run very slowly. My notes indicate that the
Satellite Pro 430CDT can hold 48M RAM; I'd find some more RAM.

Also the Processor is a Pentium 120MHz. The newer KDE will seem
sluggish. However, your older Red Hat 6.2 might be just the thing!
Use a lighter window manager, not KDE or GNOME.

Certainly worth a try.

Make a fresh floppy (you may need to try several times) and let me
know if you get it working!

Good luck,
Ted Ruegsegger