[ltp] Mandrake 10.1 Additional Driver Floppie

[SOTL]

Hi All=20
Given the information so kindly supplied by Jacob I started exploring and=20
succeeded.
In order to make an "Additional Drivers Floppy' from a 10.1 Mandrake DVD I =
did=20
the following.

1. Used new 1.44 MB floppy that will format to 1.72 MB
Old 1.44 MB floppies will not format to a higher level and thus miss fire w=
ith=20
10.1 saying incorrectly formated disk.

2. Formated floppy with stand formating to ext2 format.
=46ormat must be ext2 and quick format produces bad results.

3. Copied file:/mnt/cdrom/install/images/network_drivers.img to floppy
by terminal with command line set to /mnt/cdrom/install/images/
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dd if=3Dnetwork_drivers.img of=3Ddev/fd0

4. Floppy did not mount or be readable after copying. Why =3D unknown.

5. Started installation normally with both floppy and DVD in drive.
Clicked of on Mandrake's screw up and installation started.

=46rank


On Wednesday 01 December 2004 08:13, jacob Klitm=F8ller wrote:
> SOTL wrote:
> 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