Hello,
I have a NEC laptop with NT 4.0 and Red Hat 4.0
installed. I want to substitute RH 4 with (obviously)
Mandrake 6.1, but I have the following problems:
1) I cannot use floppy and CDROM at the same time
2) Cannot make a network install
3) Cannot boot from CDROM
4) FTP install with 28.8 modem????
5) Not enough space on HD to copy all the CDROM inside
6) No real DOS prompt, it's NT (or am I wrong?)
Since LILO is already in the laptop, I wanted to ask if
I could
put the Mandrake CD inside,
reboot, and
tell LILO to load the kernel image *on the CDROM*
(or copy it only on the HD and reconfigure LILO)
Does this make any sense?
If yes, could somebody explain what should be done?
Last but not least: the laptop came with Red Hat custom compiled
and configured for it (glory days of VAResearch...).
Which files should I look into before reinstall, to figure out
which optimizations/special configuration was done for
Power management/
PCMCIA/
kernel
XFree (aside from XFREE86config...)
etc, etc..
Thank you in advance,
Marco Fioretti
