Hi all, Good news I managed to get past that part, I managed to stumble across a forum which someone had a similar problem. What I did when I got to that screen was bash the keyboard (yes I know it sounds strange) I found that after bashing it for a bit it became responsive and I could tab move the arrows etc etc... Only thing was that the touchpad still didn’t work but at least I could install now I need to look for some info on getting my touchpad going.
Any suggestions? PS: I havent found an exact key combination at the moment which made it work but I did try it a number of times and generally when I tapped the keys down the left of my keyboard was when it responded (tab, capslock, shift, ctrl and fn) so it might help someone that has a similar problem. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Donohue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 7:57 PM To: gonny Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux on a Toshiba Satellite A30 Well for a really left field way to get Linux onto a box is to load linux onto another machine and ghost it onto the laptop after it's finished. yeah I know, but it probably would work. It'll just ask for the CD for driver updates perhaps? Other than that try loading Linux with CD's and not DVD's. gonny wrote: >Thanks for the responses people > >I have tried doing a text only install and no probe (linux text >noprobe) but I still get stuck at the first screen (the one which asks >you to test the >media) I did have suspicions on the dvd I burnt so I burnt another copy >and before I did that I verified the md5 signature and the image I >downloaded seems to be intact ... Still no luck =( > >-----Original Message----- >From: David Gillies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 8:13 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux on a Toshiba Satellite A30 > > From the boot prompt of Fedora (or any other redhat linux for that >matter) try putting in "linux text noprobe" and see how you go. > >Ben Donohue wrote: > > > >>Hi Andres, >>try doing a text based install rather than a gui install. >>it's one of the options when you initially start it up. I think from >>memory you can press F1 for more options??? (this could be wrong) it's >>been a while but textonly may be an option. anyway have a look around >>at the initial startup. >>Ben >> >> >>gonny wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>I am having problems installing Linux on my Toshiba Satellite A30. I >>>have tried a few distributions and all seem to have problems. At the >>>moment I am trying to install Fedore Core 2 and as soon as I get to >>>the first installation screen which asks if I want to test the media >>>I lose response from the keyboard and the touchpad. The keyboard does >>>work at bootup and I have tried specifing some kernel parameters but >>>havent had much luck. I have similar problems with Mandrake 10 when >>>it gets to the GUI I lose the touchpad. Does anyone have any ideas? >>> >>>I will consider anything, >>>Andres >>> >>>--- >>>Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >>>Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >>>Version: 6.0.693 / Virus Database: 454 - Release Date: 5/31/2004 >>> >>> >>> > > >--- >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.693 / Virus Database: 454 - Release Date: 5/31/2004 > > >--- >Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.693 / Virus Database: 454 - Release Date: 5/31/2004 > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/attachments/20040603/c04e0561/attachm ent.html --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.693 / Virus Database: 454 - Release Date: 5/31/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.693 / Virus Database: 454 - Release Date: 5/31/2004 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
