Best option for old laptops is to take the drive out, put it in another
machine (you get 2.5 to 3.5 inch adapters) and install there. At the end
of installation, put the drive back in the original machine. Make sure
you don't get X to start automotically.
Did this on an old Compaq, which also
Hi *,
here's my little problem.
I've got a quite old Extensa 560CD laptop (Texas Instrument) on wich I'd
like to install the Mandrake 7.02 Linux Distrib.
One important characteristic of this laptop is that you can't have at
the same time the floppy and the CD drive... And the old BIOS that
"Jose L. Marcos" wrote:
And guess what? It doesn't work... Seems that the 3C574 driver isn't
"configured" on the bootable images.
Forget my previous email... The pcmcia supplemental disk I was trying to
use was corrupted... It all works fine...
Next time I'll post my questions to newbie
Cool beans.
Glad to hear it was the floppy.
Just one question, though:
Why Mdk 7.0? Wouldn't 7.1 be better?
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