Installing Debian linux on a Dell Latitude LM (133mhz/44mb)

From: James Munson (jmunson_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/15/04

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    Date: 14 Jul 2004 17:08:41 -0700

    >From various usenet posts and google searches I've found that its
    possible to install linux on this machine (apparently even back in
    1996 people had 2.0.0 on it), but I'm having some problems installing
    Debian on it.
    It can only boot floppies, so I was trying a net install of sarge.
    Boot/root/net drivers are all fine, but then I discovered that its not
    detecting my harddrive. Right now theres nothing on the disk, so I'm
    not worried about data loss, but does anyone have any ideas on how to
    get it detected?

    I don't know much about the laptop as its a recent purchase, but I
    know its not bad. Is there any kernel paramaters or anything I need to
    get my hd to show up?

    (dmesg |grep hd and dmesg |grep sd show nothing, I've no real
    experience with laptops though, so I'm not sure what to look for.)

    TIA
     - James Munson

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