Installing Debian GNU/Linux on Libretto L2: Easy mode

Required hardware and software:

• Toshiba Libretto L2 sub-notebook
• USB floppy drive
• A floppy disk image with parted
• Installation disk images

Shrinking the Original WinME partition

1. Get this floppy disk image.
2. Write the image to a floppy disk by using rawrite (on Windows) or use dd if=libretto-parted-boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k (on Linux).
3. Boot up your Libretto with the floppy disk; remember to press F at the welcome screen to select Floppy drive as the boot device.
4. At the boot prompt, enter linux usb_root_floppy=/dev/sda, otherwise, the bootup process will fail half-way.
5. After your Libretto has boot up successfully, you will have a shell.
6. At the shell, type parted to start up the disk partitioning program.

Installation

• All floppy disk images can be found here.
• rescue.bin is the Rescue (i.e. boot) disk image, you must get it.
• root.bin is the root (i.e. the second) disk image, you must get it.
• drv14bf2.4-xfs-1.bin to drv14bf2.4-xfs-4.bin are driver disk images; if you have a network connection and you will use it to do the installation, you can skip downloading them.

1. Write the images to floppy disks first.
2. Boot the Libretto using the Rescue disk.
3. At the boot prompt, enter linux usb_root_floppy=/dev/sda.
4. Now you can do a Debian installation as usual!
5. If you won't install through network, then you need to remove the original /dev/fd0 and create a symlink /dev/fd0 to point to /dev/sda:
   1. Go to a shell (press Alt-F2)
   2. cd /dev
   3. rm fd0
   4. ln -s sda fd0

Contact: Anthony Wong