[ltp] Installation woes
Rob Moser
linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Fri, 1 Sep 2000 12:32:38 +1100 (EST)
Alas I've already tried this, but I get device busy messages from my
network card. Thanks for the advice though.
- rob.
rclough@att.net quoth:
> I tried the same thing... you do want the /redhat
> directory off of the root of the cd, but I still
> couldn't get it to work locally. My workaround was to
> run an ftp server on a networked Win98 machine, and
> select the ftp install. For some reason that did it. I
> suspect part of my problem was that DOS was only seeing
> 8.3 filenames.
> Use ArGoSofts FTP server, a great freeware product you
> can d/l from www.tucows.com.
> > 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"
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