Best option for old laptops is to take the drive out, put it in another machine (you get 2.5 to 3.5 inch adapters) and install there. At the end of installation, put the drive back in the original machine. Make sure you don't get X to start automotically. Did this on an old Compaq, which also has a PCMCIA NIC linux doesn't have drivers for. Buchan "Jose L. Marcos" wrote: > > Hi *, > > here's my little problem. > > I've got a quite old Extensa 560CD laptop (Texas Instrument) on wich I'd > like to install the Mandrake 7.02 Linux Distrib. > > One important characteristic of this laptop is that you can't have at > the same time the floppy and the CD drive... And the old BIOS that cames > on the machine just can't boot anything from the CD. > > So, in order to install the Mandrake distrib, I'm trying to boot from > the network image disk, using the pcmcia supplemental disk to use an > 3COM 10/100 LAN PC Card (Model 3CCFE574BT) plugged in, and try some NFS > installation scheme. > > And guess what? It doesn't work... Seems that the 3C574 driver isn't > "configured" on the bootable images. > > Does anybody know how I can create my own sets of boot images ? Or does > someone have some hint to help me ? > > Thanx in advance... > > -- > Jose Luis > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Y no llegaste a quererme, y eran mis cinco sentidos > Y no llegaste a quererme, y que desgraciaito he sido > Y que ha tenido que aborrecerte tanto como te ha querido > (Camaron) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- |--------------------------------------------------------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone +27824722231 email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Centre for Automotive Engineering http://www.sun.ac.za/cae South Africas first satellite: http://sunsat.ee.sun.ac.za Control Models http://www.control.co.za |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------|
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