Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 08:57:37 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file
>Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 02:36:32 +0000 >From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file > >>Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 23:15:13 >>From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>Well, if you have time for a couple or three CD's full, you can download >>the latest mandrake from www.mandrake.com > >I could do it with my sister's DSL connection. Looks like everything but >v8.1 there is an ISO image. If I had a v7.1 ISO image, could I extract the >files from that file on a desktop, and then move them to a Windows >partition >on the Lib via a network connection, and install from there. Will Mandrake >let you install it to a Linux partition from files on a Windows partition >like I did with Slackware? > >>M7.1 is a bit hard to find - it bugs me that they don't keep the old ones >>hanging around - > >I did a search and found a v7.1 Beta 3 Hydrogen copy... but it looks like >an >early Beta. I presume I'd be looking for a standard v7.1. > >I wonder if a FTP search might locate a copy. I'm sure you must have gone >down all those roads trying to track down a copy. This isn't something I'm >going to be trying right away. I'll be taking my usual leisurely time >getting ready to start the project. I've tried like mad to chase down a 7.1 installation ISO or anything - but once 7.2 and then the 8 series hit distribution, the 7.1 stuff vanished :( > > >>but the cheap cd places should have one, or I can make a copy and post to >>you when I get back to england (I have a slightly chopped one that came >>from a magazine) > >Don't think my Compuserve account will allow more than a 5MB file via >email. > Some day I need to go down to my sister's place and use her DSL to >download a few things. If I can find a website or FTP server I can >download >it from, that would be pretty quick. I meant to snail-mail a copy of the CD - no download required. One nice thing about work is that not only do we have gigabits and gigabits of internet bandwidth, but the boys in Research are always on top of the latest releases, so they're in the cache anyway. I can usually get an ISO in twenty minutes or so, if I pick a quiet time of day :) > >>The problems I've had are because I don't have a booting (or indeed, any) >>cd player for the lib, > >Has ANYONE gotten a 50 or 70 to boot from a CD-ROM drive? > >>and on the 70 there's not enough memory to install from the hd, so I stuff >>the disk in a desktop and install it there, then let the hardware >>detection >>get rid of the unneeded bits. > >What was it you couldn't do with the L50 and not the L70? And if you set >the Lib's HDD up in the desktop, won't it detect hardware on the desktop >that's not on the Lib, and not set up the Lib hardware? > >I'm still wondering if I can just load Mandrake files onto the L70's >Windows >partition of the 20GB HDD, and install from there. No? Okay, for 7.1 there are four installation images, to expect the installation data on either CD, HD, another computer (networked) and the last one is for 'pcmcia devices'. If you can't boot from the CD, you make a boot disk with one of these and let it get on with it. If you want to load from HD, you can do this on a 50 provided you select text installation, though this doesn't let you use diskdrake to partition the disk and so you can't (easily) get a journalling file system - which I consider vital for any laptop. This doesn't work on a 70 - it crashes with a memory error. If you do it on a desktop, you can load either from the HD or boot from the CD - easier - and it will pick up all the hardware on the desktop, including the video card. What you do is to tell it the video card modes failed, and then it will let you select from a list which includes the CT65550 installed on the lib. Tell it you have that but *don't* test it, and everything will be fine. When you put the disk back into the lib, kudzu and harddrake will run, and you will be asked if you want to lose all the hardware it can't find...which of course you do. Bingo. If you have a copy of the installation disk on the fat32 partition, it's easy to us kpackage or rpm to install anything that got missed, like the pcmcia drivers. Neil _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
