Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 06:58:15 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file

Have gone through all the new messages, and am drawn back to these older 
ones:


>Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 09:45:39 +0100
>From: Christian Gennerat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Matthew Hanson a �crit :
>
> > Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 01:28:23 +0000
> > From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file
> >
> >
> > This site is talking about burning the ISO image to a CD that can ?
> > be made bootable.  I don't know about the newer Libs, but I'm > pretty 
>sure these L50s and L70s won't boot from a CD-ROM drive.
>
>They won't.  But they can boot with a floppy (prepared with rawrite >and an 
>image on the CD)  And then you can install from a PCMCIA CD (for instance 
>Freecom) or a PCMCIA SCSI card  and a SCSI CD or  a PCMCIA network card 
>connected to the desktop reading the CD (or the equivalent ISO file)

My ADD DDA DAD or something is kicking in here.  If I boot from a floppy 
with rawrite, how am I going to then install from a CD with the image, if 
I''ve got the FDD plugged in?

I was thinking I could (though Neil's and others suggestion of putting the 
HDD in a desktop and booting it sounds like the best bet) copy the Linux 
boot disk over the Lib's HDD, copy CD-ROM drivers to the HDD, remove the 
FDD, and boot from the HDD with CD-ROM support.

But wouldn't I have to format a partition on the Libs HDD for Linux in order 
to copy the Linux boot files and rawrite over to it?  And wouldn't getting 
Linux drivers to operate the CD-ROM drive be a real task?

Or am I just getting way off from what you were suggesting?

Matt... back in the Linux mode again.



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