Notebook in question: Toshiba Protege M200
OS I want on it: gNewSense (www.gnewsense.org)
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Equipment I have:
>Protege M200 (has no CD/floppy drives, but it does have an SD card slot and a PCMCIA slot, curently has xp tablet edition on it)
>256MB SD card (works fine, can boot from this when it has a floppy disk image on it)
>1gb CF card (Could be used to store contents if gNewSense CD on, so that I can install gNewSense) Not sure if I can point a floppy disk image to this card.
>1GB USB memory key (Could be used to store contents if gNewSense CD on, so that I can install gNewSense) Not sure if I can point a floppy disk image to this device.
>CF card reader which plugs into the notebook's PCMCIA slot (The floppy disk image detects this, but refuses to boot from it, saying "Can't find knopppix file system, sorry"
>External USB2 DVD+/-RW drive (could be used to install gNewSense from)
>DSL 50MB live BizCard CD: This is the floppy disk image stored on the SD card that the notebook is booting from. DL it here: http://www.xmission.com/~bmidgley/m200/bootcard28.gz (More info here: http://www.xmission.com/~bmidgley/m200/)
>Digital camera that could be used to put floppy disk/boot images on the SD card (basically using it as a USB card reader) (Or I could boot into xp on the tablet PC and access the SD card via the built-in card reader)
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Problem: The M200 has no CD or floppy drive to boot from, however it has an SD card slot. *However*, the BIOS cannot boot from an SD card, so instead toshiba decided to let the SD card slot emulate a floppy drive. With this, I can boot from a floppy disk image stored on an SD card. Booting from the emulated floppy drive/SD card is OK, the problem is that I can't get the floppy disk image to boot from the CF card, saying "Can't find knopppix file system, sorry". The CF card has a FAT32 partition on it.
If I can find another floppy disk image to boot from that would allow installation from USB/PCMCIA, that would do the job.
Links: (numbered for reference)
Listing of webpages detailing GNU/Linux installation on a Protege M200:
Link 1: http://tuxmobil.org/toshiba.html
Link 2: http://www.xmission.com/~bmidgley/m200/
Link 3: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS2850840818.html
Link 4: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fireboot.html?ca=dgr-lnxw09FireBoot
Link 5: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/USB_Booting
Link 6: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Boot_Floppies