Hi, MandrakeSoft tech support has been less than useless to me. I'm hoping someone on this list can help with my Mandrake 8.1 install.
I have a (Japanese model) Thinkpad S30 with a bootable USB CD. This is the only boot media I have for this machine. The BIOS does the right thing and fakes out the boot record as a floppy, so the initial boot goes fine, but then the USB CD is not recognized by the install "floppy" from the CD boot record, so I can't install. My basic questions are: 1) has anyone here successfully installed from a USB CD drive? (and what did you do) if not.. 2) are there any Mandrake install floppy images have support for USB CD drives? I have to burn a new CD each time I try a "floppy image" so I don't want to experiment if I don't have to. I did try a custom kernel using the blank.img trick but I that wasn't enough to recognize the drive. I have successfully installed TurboLinux (another Red Hat derivative Linux), OpenBSD and NetBSD on this laptop using this drive (with no fuss at all), so I've ruled out hardware problems or lack of Linux support. Thanks for any help, -Oly
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