On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 20:36, Alan wrote: > On Friday 07 November 2036 03:21 am, Al Niessner wrote: > > I have Mandrake 8.2 up and running on a twin P3 desktop and now my > > laptop. The desktop went without a hitch because the disk was erased and > > full installation was done. My laptop was much more difficult. To start > > with, I had to use the usb.img kernel on floppy to get anywhere in the > > install process. If I just ran the cd from the start, the install > > program would simply vanish after the serial detection. Booting with the > > usb kernel got me past that and to the upgrade. Things went smoothly > > until I tried to recompile the kernel with acpi instead of apm. Found > > out that the links in /etc/alternatives were broken. I had then pointing > > to 3.0.1 which of course got upgraded to 3.0.4 but the by then the links > > had been broken. I had to go back and manually but the links back in > > /usr/bin and correct the ones I had in /etc/alternatives. So far, that > > was the only glitch. > > > > Good work Mandrake. > > In order to get Linux to install on the Vaio, you need to pass "ide=0x180" to > the kernel. They use a non-standard means of booting the cd-rom drive. It > will go part of the way through the install and then forget where the cd-rom > drive is at. > > This is not a Mandrake problem. It happens on any Linux distrobution. It also > happens on every model of Vaio with a PCMCIA cdrom. >
I don't think this mobilie has an external cdrom. Check out http://www.blankslate.net/comp/vaio.php all about installing Mandrake on a PCG-FX200 And of course look around http://www.linux-laptop.net/ I have a PCG-SR7K, and with some help from the folks here I got LM8.2 installed. It does require expert mode with that special command line, expert noauto ide2=0x180,0x386. Last night I even got the PCMCIA card services working. Now comes the wireless network card. I have read about installing Red Hat on a VAIO using a similar trick. Perhaps it is not unique to LM, but I say the LM install should reconize this hardware (it does, look in /var/log/messages) and take appropriate action. Why make we VAIO folk feel unloved? > > until I tried to recompile the kernel with acpi instead of apm. Can you elaborate on this? I know that acpi is newer and better than apm, and that's about all I know. I am surprised that LM8.2 does not provide acpi support right off the cd. Can you write up exactly what you did? Thanks. Gary Dunn Open Slate Project
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