Nope, I went into the CMOS configuration and the only bootable devices are the
floppy or the hard drive.
Thanks anyway.
jpg
> Is your CD-ROM a bootable CD-ROM? The SuSE CD set is bootable... that's how
> I installed SuSE on my Toshiba Satellite.
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John P. Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 7:42 PM
> Subject: [SuSE Linux] Attempt to Install SuSE 5.3
>
>
> >
> > I seem to have run into a small problem in attempting to install SuSe 5.3
> >on a Hewlett Packard OmniBook 5700CTX. I have a Xircom PCMCIA 10/100-Ready
> >network card, and the standard HP CD-ROM and 3.5 floppy drive modules.
> >
> > When I boot using the SuSE boot floppy in the 3.5 drive, the kernel
> doesn't
> >recognize the CD-ROM because it was not installed since I was using the 3.5
> >floppy drive. Secondly the Xircom PCMCIA card is not in the list of
> supported
> >network cards. There is a '-- More modules --' option but that just pulls
> in
> >the same list of kernel modules. There is nothing in the SuSE manual about
> >what this '-- More modules --' option is, or how to utilize it.
> >
> > So I am stuck, I cannot install from CD-ROM because the kernel doesn't
> see
> >it at boot time (since it is not plugged in), and I cannot install over the
> >network since there is no Xircom module.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> >John Griffin
> >
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