Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:40:19 +0100
From: "T. Ribbrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 9.1 (was: Slackware 8)
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:12:12AM -0800, PhotoEngineering wrote:
> I just installed Slackware on my 110CT. Marvelously easy to do. It did take
> some time since I didn't have any installation hardware except the hard
> drive, plus I am using Windows tools to control my booting process and they
> are incompatible with other operating systems.
[...]
Just as another data point: I've recently installed Mandrake Linux 9.1
on my 110CT and it was even easier... ;-) Admittedly, I had the
advantage of having the floppy drive, not using Windows at all and
having a network available at home, so that helped.
Here's what was necessary:
- Have a PCMCIA network card ready in the Libby (I've used a 3com 3c589,
as it is as bogstandard as it gets - next time I'll try my Xircom)
- Have the contents of the CD ready on a FTP or HTTP server. You need to
"merge" the CDs on the server, i.e. the "RPMS" directories of all CDs
have to be available.
- Make boot floppy from "pcmcia.img" image from the CDs (or download it
via FTP)
- Boot from floppy
- Choose network install
- set up network and tell the installer on which server to find the
files
The rest is a breeze - the machine will simply install from the server.
A bit of fiddling was needed for XFree86 (as usual) and I never bothered
to get the floppy drive supported, but the rest just works. To my great
delight, support for the Toshiba utilities interface was already present
in the Mandrake kernel, and I found a SuSE RPM with said utilities that
installed with minor tweaking, so I can set display brightness and some
other things as well now. I just love that machine... ;-)
Cheerio,
Thomas
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