Pierre Fortin wrote:
>
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I was wondering...I've got an IBM thinkpad here at the house that my
> > Daugher would like me to load Mandrake on for her. I've tried the usual
> > way of doing this but it's a no go. The CDROM is connected by a removable
> > PCMCIA card that the Madnrake setup is unable to detect. So, my question
> > is how in the world is one supposed to install in a situation like this?
> >
> > It's an older Thinkpad. I believe it's only a P1 133Mhz processor with
> > 40MB of RAM if that gives any idea as to it's age. Other than that I don't
> > know a lot about this particular machine. It seems to be a fairly well
> > behaved machine.
> >
> > So how does one go about this?
>
> Have you tried a boot floppy containing /mnt/cdrom/images/pcmcia.img ?
>
> Pierre
>
> > thanks in advance,
> >
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> > Mark
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:)_ actually no, I hadn't thought of that. Thanks...I'll give that a
try.
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Mark
