I will unlurk long enough to opine that I generally get better suggestions from serverfault.com and the related stackexchange.com family of forums than I did at Linux Questions.
Good Luck! dafydd > On Oct 23, 2016, at 8:08 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > -- David - Offbeat http://pgp.mit.edu/ dafydd - Online 0xda3f18449337d6b5 ----5----1----5----2----5----3----5----4----5----5----5----6----5----7-- Werner Heisenberg is driving down the autobahn. A police officer pulls him over. The officer says, "Excuse me, sir, do you know how fast you were going?" "No," replies Dr. Heisenberg, "but I know where I am."
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