I have just tried many times to install SuSE 9 on a Sony Vaio PCG FX401, to no avail. After the first CD installs and does the reboot the startup hangs after 'starting PCMCIA'. It becomes totally frozen, a major failure, ehich can only be recoverd by removing battery and mains supply. then restart. But the system then fails at the same place every time. The laptop bios does not support ACPI, and the 'without ACPI' is the only way the installation can be done & this is right from version 8.1 to now. I would appreciate some help. If none is forthcoming then I shall continue with Fedora which is currently installed, or return to Mandrke 9.2
On Monday 05 January 2004 20:52, Paul Constable wrote:
to install SuSE 9 on a Sony Vaio
excuse my reply ~ I am bashful to display my dark-night ignorance. I wonder if it is possible to extract the hard-disk from the Sony Vaio , and plug it into another puter running linux. { maybe you don't need to take it out ~ maybe you can unplug your CD ribbon cable from your linux puter, and plug that ribbon cable into your Sony Vaio HD ? } Then, mkreiserfs on the Sony Vaio HD, next mount that HD and, finally, clone the whole Linux system from your puter running linux. use TAR like this :- tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt; tar xvf - ) This will take about 10 minutes. When, finished, plug the HD back into the Sony Vaio ~ prolly the thing will work, with some screen adjustment with Sax2 best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________
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