Re: [SuSE Linux] Attempt to Install SuSE 5.3

"John P. Griffin" wrote:

Nope, I went into the CMOS configuration and the only bootable devices are the floppy or the hard drive.

Thanks anyway.

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Is your CD-ROM a bootable CD-ROM? The SuSE CD set is bootable... that's how I installed SuSE on my Toshiba Satellite.

Mark

-----Original Message----- From: John P. Griffin To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 7:42 PM Subject: [SuSE Linux] Attempt to Install SuSE 5.3

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I seem to have run into a small problem in attempting to install SuSe 5.3 on a Hewlett Packard OmniBook 5700CTX. I have a Xircom PCMCIA 10/100-Ready network card, and the standard HP CD-ROM and 3.5 floppy drive modules.

When I boot using the SuSE boot floppy in the 3.5 drive, the kernel

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recognize the CD-ROM because it was not installed since I was using the 3.5 floppy drive. Secondly the Xircom PCMCIA card is not in the list of supported network cards. There is a '-- More modules --' option but that just pulls in the same list of kernel modules. There is nothing in the SuSE manual about what this '-- More modules --' option is, or how to utilize it.

So I am stuck, I cannot install from CD-ROM because the kernel doesn't see it at boot time (since it is not plugged in), and I cannot install over the network since there is no Xircom module.

Any suggestions?

John Griffin

If your CDROM is on an IDE controller and is ATPAPI then you can probably change your BIOS setting to make it bootable. It could be the setting that allows you to determine the boot order. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html