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From: | James |
Subject: | Re: [Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom |
Date: | Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:06:08 -0800 |
Devon, Martin, Checked the media it's fine. I put the cdrom drive onto another comp and it works and I can read from the disk. Two possiblities I can see .... #1 the pcmcia slot has a problem. #2 (and least likely) the pcmcia disk has a problem Need to experiment some more. James Question how small is Rh's minimal install would it fit on a 500meg hdd? (God can't believe I'm asking that about linux.) > > Ok running notes to see if I can get to the point of "seeing" the pcmcia > cdrom. > > I have 3 disks in hand. pcmcia.img pcmciadd.img and updates tar. > > disk one in system.... does boot from the disk! After a very long wait. > > entered linux updates > > intrid img loads reasonalbly fast concidering it's a floppy > > Bootup once loaded is actually faster than my desktop. > > asks for PCMCIA diskd > > disk accepted says it's init pcmcia dev... whoo hoo power light on the > cdrom > > asks for driver disk.... hmmmm i'll say yes > > said yes left the pcmciadd disk in moved on to asking lang. > > it seems to have detected the cdrom... waiting for burner to finish disk 1 > > reading ctrl/alt/f4 It seems to have correctly detected the cdrom drive > sorta. It also thinks this drive does DVD's (ha) > > """ NOTE:"""" Devon you asked about the monochrome display. The only > hassle seems to be that the bottom say 30 pixels are off screen. This may > be the monitor it may not. If it works on this box I'm going to try the > Libretto and I'll see if it makes a diff. > > cdrom accessed fingers crossed. > > loader.c appears to have started. > > screen comes up asking if I want to load special device drivers. going to > click add device just to see what happens. It asked about scsi and > network.. since I don't have a nic with me I'm going to back out. > > Asking for updates disk. Reading updates. getting flashes on the cdrom > id-10-t light. (now 5 minutes into install.) > > No action for the last minute or so. Letting it wait. > > 2 minutes later cdrom light flashing again. > > Running anaconda please wait appears on the screen. > > ***Note:*** It looks like the top 100pixels of the screen are folded onto > the bottom of the screen. > > Probing for video card comes up .... says it's unable to probe. > Same result for monitor type > Found the ps/2 mouse but it recognized it as a 3 button. (it's a two > button track ball) > > mouse selection screen comes up. choosing 2 button generic > > WELCOME TO REDHAT LINUX > > It asks what type of system I want to istall low mem laptop custom etc... > wish laptop low mem existed. Chosing low mem > > Disk partitioning using auto. (simulation of novice user) although time > between screens is slow it's not at all painful and screen response is > very high. > > partitioning underway. seems to be done blank screen up (meaning no > selection yet.) install exiting abmormally --recieved signal 11 > > ctrl/alt/f3 last 3 lines anaconda floppy device fd0 > Detected 16M of memory (funny it only has 11 > megs) > Swap attempt of 96m to 192m > > hmmmm ctrl/alt/f4 yeilds a lot of errors erro -3 while decompressing etc > etc..... I think the media is bad. Will check reburn and retry later > tonight. All the errors seem to be I/0 errors related to the media. > > James > > > > > > > > - -D > > > > - -- > > > > pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/pgpkey.txt > > > > - -- > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > > > iD8DBQE8dwNteMAUbzJhSVcRAh3SAJ9BzGpjM3oGGDcUO2CwBjMi7VdM/gCgm0rG > > UQcC5PQyneXjIZ6CxWGplDQ= > > =aWCl > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Rule-list mailing list > > address@hidden > > http://mail.freesoftware.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/rule-list > > _______________________________________________ > Rule-list mailing list > address@hidden > http://mail.freesoftware.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/rule-list
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