I have a Toshiba 4010CDT (laptop) with 160 Mb RAM and a 4Gb drive. I am trying to install SuSE7.2 on it with absolutely no success. For some unknown reason I cannot get it to boot the CDROM even though there is a setting in the laptop's BIOS to boot CDROMs. No big problem though - I should be able to use the floppies. I boot it with the floppy disk. It starts up as expected, asks for the modules disk, and then starts loading from the CDROM. It looks for the display, and then loads the first YAST2 screen. It stops dead at this point.... no errors, nothing... I thought maybe it was still autodetecting and left it for an hour... nothing. Repeated reboots etc still ends up with the same result... a complete lockup. Any ideas or suggestions? Anyone have a clue why it would lock up? Clayton
Clayton Cornell wrote:
I have a Toshiba 4010CDT (laptop) with 160 Mb RAM and a 4Gb drive. I am trying to install SuSE7.2 on it with absolutely no success. For some unknown reason I cannot get it to boot the CDROM even though there is a setting in the laptop's BIOS to boot CDROMs. No big problem though - I should be able to use the floppies. I boot it with the floppy disk. It starts up as expected, asks for the modules disk, and then starts loading from the CDROM. It looks for the display, and then loads the first YAST2 screen. It stops dead at this point.... no errors, nothing... I thought maybe it was still autodetecting and left it for an hour... nothing. Repeated reboots etc still ends up with the same result... a complete lockup.
Any ideas or suggestions? Anyone have a clue why it would lock up?
Apparently there is something in the laptop that yast2 just dosn't know how to handle. Boot from floppy with cdrom#1 in there, at the floppy boot prompt, enter "manual" and you will be able to install with yast1. At least you are lucky enough to have a cdrom and floppy on the laptop. My old laptop had "swapping cdrom and floppy", I could boot from cdrom, but it wouldn't let me load needed modules from cdrom; so I had to boot from floppy, and install via NFS with the cdrom in another machine. Good practice......................:-) NetZero Platinum No Banner Ads and Unlimited Access Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! http://www.netzero.net
I have a Toshiba 4010CDT (laptop) with 160 Mb RAM and a 4Gb drive. I am trying to install SuSE7.2 on it with absolutely no success. For some
Apparently there is something in the laptop that yast2 just dosn't know how to handle. Boot from floppy with cdrom#1 in there, at the floppy boot prompt, enter "manual" and you will be able to install with yast1.
Shoulda thoughta that. Did a YAST1 install and it is humming along fine. I have gotten spoiled by the point and click interface of YAST2 ;-P Thanks for the pointer. C.
On Saturday 21 July 2001 16:49, you wrote:
I have a Toshiba 4010CDT (laptop) with 160 Mb RAM and a 4Gb drive. I am trying to install SuSE7.2 on it with absolutely no success. For some
Apparently there is something in the laptop that yast2 just dosn't know how to handle. Boot from floppy with cdrom#1 in there, at the floppy boot prompt, enter "manual" and you will be able to install with yast1.
Shoulda thoughta that. Did a YAST1 install and it is humming along fine. I have gotten spoiled by the point and click interface of YAST2 ;-P
Thanks for the pointer.
C.
Well, it worked... sort of. I got the base system installed OK. I can boot to a text prompt no problem. It chokes on SAX big time. Looks like (as someone suggested) it is not too happy with the video card built into the laptop. Sigh... unless someone has figured out a quick workaround for this, it looks like this machine will be <shudder> booting Windows for now. I know, I could hand edit the config files until it works, but I don't have enough knowledge, time and patience to do that right now. Later C.
Have you tried this page: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clayton Cornell" <c.cornell@chello.nl> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: 21 July 2001 20:06 Subject: Re: [SLE] Installing SuSE7.2 on a laptop
On Saturday 21 July 2001 16:49, you wrote:
I have a Toshiba 4010CDT (laptop) with 160 Mb RAM and a 4Gb drive. I am trying to install SuSE7.2 on it with absolutely no success. For some
Apparently there is something in the laptop that yast2 just dosn't know how to handle. Boot from floppy with cdrom#1 in there, at the floppy boot prompt, enter "manual" and you will be able to install with yast1.
Shoulda thoughta that. Did a YAST1 install and it is humming along fine. I have gotten spoiled by the point and click interface of YAST2 ;-P
Thanks for the pointer.
C.
Well, it worked... sort of. I got the base system installed OK. I can boot to a text prompt no problem. It chokes on SAX big time. Looks like (as someone suggested) it is not too happy with the video card built into the laptop.
Sigh... unless someone has figured out a quick workaround for this, it looks like this machine will be <shudder> booting Windows for now. I know, I could hand edit the config files until it works, but I don't have enough knowledge, time and patience to do that right now.
Later C.
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On Saturday 21 July 2001 22:13, Dave Taylor wrote:
Have you tried this page:
Dave
Hmmm didn't pick that one up on my search - didn't search hard enough. There is some good info there. BTW, to answer questions that were sent offlist - this machine has never has Linux on it. It has always - until today - had Windows installed. It's not mine, it belongs to my sister. She had a chance to try out SuSE7.2 on my desktop system, and within about 2 hours asked me to backup everything on the laptop, wipe Windows, and install Linux... another convert ;-) - The video card is a Chips Technologies (F65555 Rev 6) Another problem has has popped up.. the PCMCIA network card is an SMC 8034TX-56K. There is information on the SMC home pages, but haven't had any success yet. I do have to say though that the Linux support info on the SMC is about the most complete I have see for a component supplier. A nice change from the usual "Linux??? isn't that some form of cancer?" attitude. Thanks for the suggestions so far... I am making slow progress. Ciao C.
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