Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 10:23:24 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file
>Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:01:29 +0000 >From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file > >>Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 08:57:37 >>From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>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,.. > >4 image files, or 4 methods of installing images, or both? > 4 image files (1.4MB) each of which expects to find the installation files in a different place. > >>..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. > > >Going backwards (not sure if "'pcmcia devices'" and "neworked" are >referring >to the same process): > >4 and/or 3: I have a Xircom combo card with networking I've just gotten >running in Windows. If there are drivers (and no doubt Card Service >drivers) that can get networking running in DOS, I could install from a >desktop from an MS-DOS partition of that will work. Not sure I understand: I think that the network installation requires the mandrake driectory to be visible over a linux network - i.e. from an existing working installation on a desktop or server. But if you have dos network drivers, you could copy to a dos partition over the network and then install. > >2: I guess from what you wrote about a L70 crashing trying to install from >its HDD, this is out... unless I decide to keep my old L50 a while longer >and use it for Linux (Just hate to part with my first Libby love!) > Bingo! o Somehow, get the entire mandrake CD onto the drive. o Put the drive in the 50 o Rawrite the HD image and boot from it 'text' mode o Complete the installation on the 50 o Pull the drive and stuff into the 70. Sorted... >> >>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. > >So are you saying that kudzu and harddrake will dump all the hardware >settings it found on the desktop, and then search the Lib for hardware, and >make up a new list of settings? Sounds great. Works well, there's nothing on the lib it doesn't know about. > >But is there an advantage to this method over loading Mandrake right onto >the Lib via a CD-ROM running from a (small if necessary) MS-DOS partition. Well, it's an hour quicker to install on my desktop (after I've made all the selections) than on the lib :) >Or agian, won't Mandrake install from a booted MS-DOS partition. It will, see above. > >Hmmm... yeah... I remember in installing Slackware, I had to boot from the >rawrite FDD to set it up and install the files from the Windows partition. >So I'm guessing Mandrake won't install from a HDD booted into MS-DOS. It will, but it needs to boot from a floppy that you make. If there was more memory, you could use loadlin, but if you run the batch files directly, I never found a way of getting the text option, and without that, you'll get a memory error. I have *no* idea why it should take 32M to copy files, even with pretty pictures. > >>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. > >Okay... great. > It won't do the PCMCIA by default on a desktop, iirc it will if you install on the laptop because it finds the enabler chipset. But even if it does, Redhat, and by extension Mandrake, have a brain dead package which installs a config file consisting of 'pcmcia=off' which you need to change before it will run. Once it's up, it's wonderful. >Re-thinking what I wrote above about loading from CD-ROM or a Network card >(I'm not sure if your "'pcmcia devices'" was a 4th option, or what makes it >different from using a network card)... It seems if I tried to I don't think that a network card is accessed in the same way if it's an ISA or PCI card, as it is if it's in a pcmcia. I'd guess 'pcmcia devices' is for CDROM - but you need the slot for the boot disk, unless...it may work if you have the expander and the second slot. Neil _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
