[ltp] Installation woes

[Mike Eggleston]

I have a 765D, 102MB, 3.6GB, RH 6.1.
When I set it up I did not have the external floppy so I created a 200MB DOS
partition, loaded the boot floppy and dos bootables, put the cdrom in and
booted to dos. From dos I started the RH boot image, then installed. I have
tried installing a 18GB disk I bought so I could load mp3s, but the drive just
will not work in the 765D. I also have the same 3com combo card.

Mike

Rob Moser wrote:

> 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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