[S.u.S.E. Linux] Re: Re:
Hi, On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Avi Schwartz wrote:
You haven't mentioned which thinkpad you have but I know it is not the same as mine (TP 701C) just because you mentioned you have a built-in floppy drive (the 701 has an external one).
With my laptop I am using an external CDROM drive connect via a PCMCIA card. My CDROM is an EIDE CDROM. To install SuSE 5.2 on my laptop, I inserted the CD into the CDROM drive and booted from the supplied install floppy disk. I loaded the PCMCIA module and the CDROM was immediately recognized. From this point on the installation was a breeze.
Well, there are thinkpads that work and there are thinkpads that don't. Until now I was unable to see a pattern in which circumstances it works and in which it doesn't. The only way that has worked for _everybody_ so far is using loadlin.exe from DOS. The workaround I'm working on is to have a FreeDos kernel with enough functionality to allow running loadlin.exe (see my previous mail).
If your CDROM is also an EIDE one, I would recommend using this installation method. If you CDROM is SCSI, it might get a bit more complicated unless the module for you PCMCIA SCSI card can be found on the installation disk.
-- Avi
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