Yesterday I received a used Lenovo ThinkPad x200 and tried to install Slackware-14.2/x86_64 on it using my external optical drive.
The system booted off the distribution DVD (after I set up the BIOS to look at the optical drive first), cfdisk allowed me to partition the drive, and setup allowed me to assign sda1 to /, sda2 to swap, and sda3 to /home. Nothing to see here, move along. So I did. Choosing to run a full installation I pressed the [Enter] key. No optical drive spinup, and a message box displayed telling me the installation is complete and I can reboot the computer. Well, no. Nothing was installed. Not having this experience before, I posted a description of the problem in the Laptops and Notebooks forum on linuxquestions.org. There have been 168 voyeurs and one response to my question about designating sda1 bootable. Nothing about why no istallation when the drive is seen by the system and works as expected until time to install everything. Might I see useful responses if I repost to either the Slackware or ThinkPad fora instead of where it is? I'd like to get this done today as all my portables are currently down and I need to get them all back in working order. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
