Hello list, today I wanted to install windows-2000 professional on a laptop: an IBM thinkpad 600x. This model has no builtin ethernet so I have to use some PCMCIA card. No problem I thought, linux supports 3COM 3c575 very well, but the linuxboot disk has no PCMCIA support. So I looked for the dosboot disk and there is an image with support for the 3c575. After some troubles with not getting an IP-Adress (putting the card in the other slot cured this) I finally was able to boot and get to the windows setup.
Here the problems started so that everytime I after copying the files to the local disk setup was not able to use them. After many experiments I finally found the culprit: smartdrv was used without switches and that obviously corrupted the filesystem. Manually I used "smartdrv a- b- c" and that cured the problem. It might be better to ask the user if he installs Windows-XP and thus has to use smartdrv without options: something like "CHOICE /C:YN /T:N,5 smartdrv with write back (if unsure, say yes if installing Windows-XP)" Or do you have better solutions? Regards Stefan Kell ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
