T3400CT Install - More Info

[Richard Seymour <rseymour@anarchysoftware.com>]

I am attempting to install RedHat 5.1 on a Toshiba Portege 3400CT (a
laptop). It has an external floppy, no CD ROM, and a couple of problems.

1) I cannot seem to boot from a Linux diskette. (I can boot from a DOS
floppy).

I get around problem 1 by using loadlin.exe. Linux seems to detect the
hard drive at this point, since I see something like this flash by:

hda: TOSHIBA MK1724FCV 249 MB w/ 128 Cache CHS=842/16/32

2) During Red Hat's install during Disk Setup, if I choose Disk Druid I
get the following error:

"No Drives Found: An error has occuerred - no valid devices were found on
which to create new file systems." Yada yada yada. 

If I choose fdisk, I get this error:

"Hard Drives: You don't have any hard drives avaliable! You probably
forgot to configure a SCSI controller." 

I don't *think* it's a SCSI controlled disk. 

I have read of other people installing slackware and at least one that
installed some version of Red Hat. I've gone over the step by step
instructions that I found at the Linux Laptops web site. All to no avail.

Any ideas on this?

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Richard Seymour, Anarchy Software, Inc.
anarchy@anarchysoftware.com

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