maybe offtopic... but - Libretto.

[The MiP RvL]

>I'm struggling with Toshiba Libretto 1050ff, trying to install FreeBSD on it.
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>The old notebook apparently cannot boot from anything but hard disk or Toshiba's external floppy, which I don't have and cannot find. 
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>Currently, it's running Win98.
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>Disk is already partitioned, so I could use second partition... if only I'll be able to boot a kernel somehow.
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>I've installed bootmanager, but that's all I've managed to do.
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>bsdboot always hangs on attempt to load a kernel, and I haven't found any tool able either to start with FreeBSD installation image or to >write minimal FreeBSD partition on disk.
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>Maybe someone can help?


I can only think of one option at the moment. Install linux through loadlin. Debian 3.x will do fine.  And then run the depenguinator

http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/

regards,

Roland