I'm afraid that I don't have any help on your problem, but would you mind
telling me the brand name of your dimm chip memory. I'm having trouble in
the memory area of my 755C.
Thank you so much,
Respectfully,
Roberta Lippse
support systems analyst
Department of Psychiatry
University of Arizona
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, David Kramer wrote:
> I have a 755C with a (now) 1.4GB hard drive and (now) 32MB+4MB=38MB RAM,
> docking station 1, and an Accton PCMCIA ethernet card for it. It
> currently has Win95 on hda1 and Red Hat 5.2 on hda2 (/), hda3 (/usr),
> and hda4 (swap). I did this install via ftp from a linux box on my
> intranet (put the CD in the server and mounted it under ~ftp), and that
> took a long time to figure out. I want to replace Red Hat with Suse.
>
> When I try to install Suse from the CDROM in the docking station, it
> does not recognize the SCSI card (I think its a Future Domain 850).
> That also prevents me from hooking up an external drive to install from,
> or an external SCSI CDROm drive.
>
> When I try to install via FTP like I did Red Hat, it says I can't find
> the server. I'm pretty sure it is recognizing the PCMCIA ethernet
> card. If I let it load modules itself it loads "ne". I wish it would
> give more information than that. I also wish their install had a
> command prompt on another console like Red Hat's so I can dignose the
> problem.
>
> When I copied the contents of CD1 to a directory on hda2 and CD2 (do I
> need this for the install?) to a directory on hda3 (and ln -s to a
> directory on hda2 (had to do this for space reasons), it eventually
> fails, telling me it couldn't mount hda2 cuz it was already mounted.
> Duh.
>
> I would like to fool around with the FTP option a little more to see if
> I'm doing something wrong. Will it ask me where on the FTP server the
> files are, or do I need to make it look a specific way?
>
> I would rather not wipe out my Win95 partition and dum CD1 there, cuz
> there are some special hardware configurations I would not look forward
> to reconstructing.
>
> Any advice? Had anyone got linux to recognize the docking station 1?
>
> BTW, if anyone else tries this, on the boot prompt you need to specify
> "floppy=thinkpad".
>
> Thanks in advance.
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