Stephen....it could be that your mouse is a separate problem. There
have been numerous folks with problems with laptop built-in mice and the
solution was to use a serial mouse and physically disconnect
(internally) the built-in one (at least till after the install is
complete.
Alan
Stephen Carville wrote:
>
> I tried and it almost worked! I got as far as configuring the
> mouse, then the system hung and I had to reset. Now of course I
> cannot boot at all because lilo cannot find the boot device it is
> expecting. Oh well, thanks to all for the help. Unless I can find a
> replacement for the little Panasonic drive, it looks like the old
> Omnibook just became a paper weight.
>
> On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Stephen Carville wrote:
> -On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> --On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Stephen Carville wrote:
> --> I have a laptop with a bad floppy drive and an external SCSI CD. I
> --> have a small DOS partition on the hard drive. Is it possible to
> --> initiate an install from a hard drive? I only need to get far enough
> --> along to start reading from the CD.
> --
> --dosutils/autoboot/*
> -
> -Thanks, I will give that a try.
>
> --
> Stephen Carville
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Any law that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the grounds
> that guns are a public health hazard should be treated the same as
> a law that burdens Atheism as a mental health hazard.
