Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 14:32:26 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file
>Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 08:09:02 +0000 >From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file > >>Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 10:23:24 >>From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> >>>>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. > >Okay... the fog has finally lifted a bit. I originally thought you were >saying that four installation images were necessary in order to start to >install Mandrake. Now I think I'm understanding that there are 4 >installation image files, and depending on which method of installation you >choose, you use the one installation image that is appropriate for that >installation method. You got it. >Going back to where you wrote: > >>>>..to expect the installation data on either CD, HD, another computer >>>>(networked) and the last one is for 'pcmcia devices'. > >I guess there was a distiction between when you said there are 4 image >files >"that will expect the installation data on either CD, HD, another computer >(networked) and the last one is for 'pcmcia devices'", you were saying that >'pcmcia devices' was the 4th installation method. I was thinking that a >net >card was a pcmcia device, and was lumping them together as one method. Yes, but normally the network card is on the ISA or PCI bus, and the CD on the IDE bus. SO if you're using these, it needs the enablers running. But on the lib you (a) run out of pcmcia sockets and (b) the floppy stops working once you've booted linux. > >Not that it'll help me, but out of my innate curiousity (I accidently drop >and broke my brother's skylight cover last year because I took it off >wanting to see how it was all constructed ... I bought him a clear >replacement for the broken white translucent original, and ended up >brightening things up... accidents can be helpful sometimes... but >obviously >costly in this case) mv /dev/skylight /dev/null ? >>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... > >Heh... except for the last step... I was thinking of keeping the HDD in the >L50, and keeping the L50 instead of putting it on EBay (how can I sell >her?) >as a dedicated Linux system. So no problems, except that you won't be able to use the reiserfs and will be stuck with ext2 - no great worries except when it wants to do the fsck, which takes a while (but not as long as scandisk!) >Was that floppy I made for the Slackware installation with rawrite on it an >MS-DOS formatted disk? I can't remember. I guess so I don't think Floppies have the same physical format in dos and linux though the filesystem is different usually - rawrite copies sector-for-sector so it doesn't matter what the format is. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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 **************************************************************
