There are a few things we will need to make this successful.
a usb hub
two bootable thumbdrives
usb keyboard
20 minutes
Fist step is to make our dt boot to a live linux thumbdrive. One with a live distro on it that is capable of reading the older DT hardware correctly. I personally like Slax6.1.1. Head over to their site and follow instructions for downloading version 6.1.1 and making it bootable on a usb drive.
Now get your hub in line, keyboard attached, and boot yout DT to slax
At the gui press escape for the text environment.
Insert at this point your thumbdrive with linux image of choice in to usb hub
boot with
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slax vga=771
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root
and
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toor
Now the fun
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fdisk -l
Mount the volume that holds the linux image you wish to install if not mounted already. You will know it is mounted if the contents show up in /mnt folder. If you need to mount it issue:
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mount /path/to/drive /mnt
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dmesg | tail
Now take the time to format your dt's hard drive eliminating all partitions on it a midst some back end computer message but it should be there. Either that or a read error. In that case pull it and reinsert.
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cfdisk
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dd if=/mnt/webdt-image.img of=/dev/hda
If this command fails then please check the drive containing image is mounted or that the path is adjusted accordingly.
The transfer takes about 15 minutes. The DT366 is usb1.1 so the terminal may show the finish of the command and there is still information being transfered. Look at any lights you may have on your thumb drive to see actual completion. When light stops blinking in about 15 minutes you are done.
Reboot and you should have a new operating system. The dd tools simply copies the whole file system to a single raw image. Either a dd or an img. Although iso is possible it would be confusing here as it would include no installer.
It goes without saying please check your md5 sums before installing and please partition your drive as well.