Re: [Rule-list] preparing Richard's laptop

[Richard Kweskin]

Hello all

On Sunday 17 March 2002 4:13 pm, Devon wrote:
> You might be able to do a network install. You can try:
> Getting the images from
> http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/rule/images-0.7.0/
> I believe you need the bootnet.img, and the drvblock.img

Tried this and gave me nic drivers list that did not go with my pc card 
xircom nic.
Then downloaded pcmcia.img and pcmciadd.img.

> If you boot from the bootnet.img and at the syslinux prompt, enter:
> linux dd updates, it should prompt for the driver disk and the updates
> disk. This method, if it works, will need at least 12M of RAM.

Then tried booting from pcmcia.img, typed linux dd updates.
Then it prompted for pcmcia driver disk and I inserted pcmciadd.img and it 
initialised my pc card nic. Then it prompted for a driver disk and I inserted 
drvblock.img. Then after going through language, keyboards, choosing nfs, 
network parameters, no special device drivers, it prompts for the update 
disk. When inserted, however, it fails to mount the floppy.

Maybe it is the floppy, so go back and download the tar file again. Untar it. 
Copy everything to a new blank floppy, it still fails to mount it. Press 
Alt-F2, go to shell, and mount the disk there, ls the contents, everything is 
there! Press Alt-F4 and find VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev loop(7,0) 
and VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev fd(2,0). Trying to mount the 
floppy with -t ext2 instead of -t vfat gives invalid argument.

> I'll have to try this myself tonight. :)

On a laptop?
Richard
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