[ltp] Mandrake 10.1 Additional Driver Floppie

SOTL linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 1 Dec 2004 07:49:33 -0500


On Wednesday 01 December 2004 02:17, jacob Klitm=F8ller wrote:
> Hi
>
> Your problem sounds familiar. I've had the very same trying to install
> Mandrake 10.0 and 10.1 from CD (not DVD) on a Thinkpad 760ED.
> As far as I can tell the problem is that the installation process
> 'thinks' it is installing from a floppy. The 'additional driver floppy'
> is a floppy image located on the cds (and probably on your DVD). On the
> CD it is located in /path/to/cd/install/images/*. There is a choice of
> cddrivers, networkdrivers and PCMCIA. Hopefully you can get the driver
> for your dvd-drive there.
> Since the floppy and CD-drive in my 760ED are swapable I have been
> unable to test if it works. Mandrake 9.1 and 9.2 does not have this
> problem and till now this is what I use.
>
> Hope it helps
>
> Jacob Klitm=F8ller

I have the following install images on my CD @=20
file:/mnt/cdrom/install/images/alternatives/
cdrom-changedisk.img-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdkBOOT     1.4 MB
cdrom.img-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdkBOOT                        1.4 MB
MD5SUM                                                                  359=
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network_drivers.img-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdkBOOT           1.4 MB
alternatives/network.img-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdkBOOT      1.4 MB
alternatives/pcmcia.img-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdkBOOT       1.4 MB

Is this what you have in mind.

Thanks
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