On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:31:35 -0600
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> Subject: [expert] Lap-top
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> I was just wondering if anyone has successfully done an ftp install of
> mandrake 7.1 on a laptop. The only version of anything I have been acle to
> install was RedHat 5.2 (via ftp) but for somereason it dies on me after
> retrieving the second stage. I am using a Linksys combo PCMCIA card and was
> wondering if the problem *might* be the card (even though it does actually
> connect via ftp to retrieve the second stage) Any suggestions are greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Lonny Selinger
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I am forced to deal with a sony vaio that has a USB floppy, and past the
first disk, the floppy drive no longer works, as soon as the kernel is
loaded, I just copied the install files to a dos partition, then did a
loadlin style install. However, I was lucky enough to get my hands on a
toshiba laptop that has an external non-usb floppy, and built-in ethernet,
and that worked without problems, it has some intel eepro100 chip in it.
I made a local mirror of the Mandrake install files on my fileserver, and
installed it without problems. If you suspect you typed in something wrong
for the ftp, look at the system logs in /var/log, that helped me debug
quite a bit of ftp installs. Good Luck!.
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Regards,
Ellick Chan
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Jul 17
