[ltp] Installation woes

Fri, 1 Sep 2000 09:04:53 +0100

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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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