[ltp] Mandrake 10.1 Additional Driver Floppie

jacob Klitmøller linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 01 Dec 2004 14:13:58 +0100 

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SOTL wrote:
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  <pre wrap="">On Wednesday 01 December 2004 02:17, jacob Klitm&oslash;ller wrote:
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    <pre wrap="">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&oslash;ller
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I have the following install images on my CD @ 
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:/mnt/cdrom/install/images/alternatives/">file:/mnt/cdrom/install/images/alternatives/</a>
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No the drivers are in /mnt/cdrom/install/images and are named
network.img, network_drivers.img, cdrom.img. These need to be written
to floppy and you then need to boot from them. You can the make a
network install (either locally with a server onto which you copy the
content of the DVD or over the internet (if 10.1 is available through
mirrors). Annoying since the DVD-install 'should' work.<br>
If you have both floppydrive and DVD-drive in you laptop you might
succeed by writing the cdrom.img to floppy and use it when propted for
extra drivers. But as I said I have no experience in this.<br>
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  <pre wrap="">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 b
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
Frank

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Good luck<br>
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Jacob Klitm&oslash;ller<br>
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