[ltp] Installation woes

[Jake Holmen]

Darren, interested to hear that you got this fixed.  I never thought of 
suspending, I just gave up and coerced a work mate into (permanently) 
lending me his "clamshell case" which allows the external floppy and have 
the CD internal.

I also investigated buying one for about $15 US from another member of the 
list.

Cool.
J

>From: Darren Kennedy <darren.kennedy@rdel.co.uk>
>Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
>To: "'linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com'" <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
>Subject: RE: [ltp] Installation woes
>Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 09:04:53 +0100
>
>This may offer some possibilities...
>
>I have a 760CD, 1.2GB, RH 6.1, internal cd / internal floppy but
>not at the same time. I do not possess the cable to allow me to
>attach the floppy externally so I have both connected at the same
>time. I had an interesting dilemma how to boot from floppy then install
>from the install cd.
>
>My fix was to boot from floppy ie load vmlinux and initrd.img, but
>before the kernel ran I put the machine into standby ie fn+f2. I then
>swapped the floppy for cd, and un-standby'd (fn). THe kernel then
>detected the cd and I carried on. This avoided lots of potential headaches.
>I was quite amazed it actually worked.
>
>As an aside, I selected  IBM LCD 9514  as my monitor, and Trident
>9320. All worked hunky dorey.
>
>Darren Kennedy.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Mike Eggleston [SMTP:mikeegg@prodigy.net]
>Sent:	Thursday, August 31, 2000 12:12 PM
>To:	linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
>Subject:	Re: [ltp] Installation woes
>
>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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