[ltp] Installation woes

[Rob Moser]

I've been trying a number of different ways to get Redhat 6.2 onto the
TP765D which work has just lent me, but to no avail.  Possibly someone here
can help?

The machine is a ThinkPad 765D with a 2G IDE hard disk, a built-in CDROM
and an external FDD.  It has a 3Com Etherlink III PCMCIA ethernet card.

I pulled the redhat-6.2-i386.iso image off of mirror.aarnet.edu.au (an
official australian redhat mirror) and burnt it to a cd.  Pulled boot.img
off of redhat-6.2/i386/images on same and wrote it to a 3.5 using rawrite.
Machine boots, run installer in (default, text, expert, text expert; I
tried em all) mode and it asks for language, keyboard type, and then
CDROM.  Spins the CD then says "...could not find Red Hat Linux CDROM in
any of your CDROM..."

Didn't want to download all 600-odd megs again and burn another CD just
yet, and there is a network install tree (FTP) local to me, so I went and
got bootnet.img and rawrote it to disk.  Boots, run installer in (*) mode
and it asks for lang, keyboard, then tell it FTP and it asks for a network
device driver.  The pull-down list has mine (Etherlink III) so I select and
get: "/tmp/3c509.o: init_module: Device or resource busy"

Long story less long, I also tried pulling vmlinuz and initrd.img and
running them from loadlin.exe from MSDOS mode (yes, the machine is
currently running NT), and had no joy; loadlin doesn't even recognise the
image.

Been searching through various FAQ, how-to's, and webring pages, but
everyone seems to assume that the installation goes dream-like and then
gets straight down to configuration.  I can't even get in the front door.
Any suggestions anyone?  Is there a way I can verify my CDROM aside from
re-downloading and re-burning?

Thanks,

	- rob.
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