Installing SuSE 6.4 on IBM Thinkpad 755CD Model 9545
Help Please, I'm trying to install SuSE 6.4 on an IBM Thinkpad 755CD. The Thinkpad has 40Mb Ram and 5.2 Gb Hdd. It also has a removable CD ROM/ FDD combination - I can either have the FDD or CD ROM drive in the bay but not both! It also has a D-Link PCMCIA Ethernet card installed (DE-660CT) which works under Windows '95 but not under Linux. I can get an install (after a fashion) by running setup from the CD ROM but am then unable to access the CD ROM drive. Any ideas any one? Alan Harris Network Manager Bryngwyn School Tel: 01554 750661 Fax: 01554 758255 Email: alanh@bryngwyn.carmarthen.sch.uk
I have an old machine which does not have a cdrom or a floppy drive. It did have a working copy of msdos and a network adapter, so I copied the install CD onto the hard disk and installed it from there, starting the process with loadlin IIRC. If you can boot off the CD then you will not need the complication of using loadlin, and will not need the network connection to copy the important bits of the CD to the harddisk either. I was using 6.2 at the time, based on information in the manual. HTH Clive. On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Help Please,
I'm trying to install SuSE 6.4 on an IBM Thinkpad 755CD.
The Thinkpad has 40Mb Ram and 5.2 Gb Hdd. It also has a removable CD ROM/ FDD combination - I can either have the FDD or CD ROM drive in the bay but not both! It also has a D-Link PCMCIA Ethernet card installed (DE-660CT) which works under Windows '95 but not under Linux. I can get an install (after a fashion) by running setup from the CD ROM but am then unable to access the CD ROM drive.
Any ideas any one?
Alan Harris Network Manager Bryngwyn School
Thanks Guys, My OBM is know running Linux, talking to it's CD ROM and the Network! Alan Clive Jones wrote:
I have an old machine which does not have a cdrom or a floppy drive. It did have a working copy of msdos and a network adapter, so I copied the install CD onto the hard disk and installed it from there, starting the process with loadlin IIRC. If you can boot off the CD then you will not need the complication of using loadlin, and will not need the network connection to copy the important bits of the CD to the harddisk either.
I was using 6.2 at the time, based on information in the manual.
HTH
Clive.
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Help Please,
I'm trying to install SuSE 6.4 on an IBM Thinkpad 755CD.
The Thinkpad has 40Mb Ram and 5.2 Gb Hdd. It also has a removable CD ROM/ FDD combination - I can either have the FDD or CD ROM drive in the bay but not both! It also has a D-Link PCMCIA Ethernet card installed (DE-660CT) which works under Windows '95 but not under Linux. I can get an install (after a fashion) by running setup from the CD ROM but am then unable to access the CD ROM drive.
Any ideas any one?
Alan Harris Network Manager Bryngwyn School
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On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 09:12:13AM +0100, Alan Harris wrote:
Help Please,
I'm trying to install SuSE 6.4 on an IBM Thinkpad 755CD.
The Thinkpad has 40Mb Ram and 5.2 Gb Hdd. It also has a removable CD ROM/ FDD combination - I can either have the FDD or CD ROM drive in the bay but not both! It also has a D-Link PCMCIA Ethernet card installed (DE-660CT) which works under Windows '95 but not under Linux. I can get an install (after a fashion) by running setup from the CD ROM but am then unable to access the CD ROM drive.
Any ideas any one?
I had a similar problem with my ThinkPad 240 so under Windows I ftp'd the entire CD from my workstation to the Windows partition. I then booted the laptop into Dos mode and ran the batch file that was on the CD. There are more details at: http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/misc/thinkpad240.html also worth looking at if you haven't already: http://physics.open.ac.uk/linux-laptop/ -- Frank *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* | Boroughbridge | Tel: 01423 323019 | PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 | *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/
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Alan Harris
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Clive Jones
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Frank Shute