Can't say I've heard of TXC, nor have I tried using any kind of PCMCIA
CD drive (I've only used a Backpack parallel port drive). Your drive
should have come with a floppy disk with a driver on it, even if it is a
no-name (I've bought some pretty crappy stuff that came with drivers).
I might suggest looking around the manufacturer's website (if they have
one) for more info, or a current driver.
My approach to installing any OS on an Intel-based machine has always
been to create a Windoze 95 start-up disk, finding the correct driver
for my CD drive and making sure MS-DOG (you need to reference it in your
"config.sys" file with a command whose name escapes me at the moment,
ms-something) can see it. This is rather tricky--I have to muck through
it evrey time I do this. (BTW, if there is an easy way to eliminate the
Winschmoes dependency I would love to hear it).
Hope this helps,
Dhruva
Cullen, Ryan wrote:
>
> I am battling to install Linux on my laptop, probably since I have a
> no-name-brand PCMCIA CD-ROM. I just was wondering what are the minimal
> needed files I can just copy onto my HDD to run Linux. I have only 150MB
> free on my HDD. I don't need any extra's or the GUI. Just the text
> version.
> Alternatively can anyone tell me if they had any problems installing a TXC
> compatible CD-ROM.
> I am starting from Scratch. I have no previous experience with linux.
> Thanx
> Ryan
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