On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 02:12, Proctor wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anders Johansson"
To: Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 20:56 Subject: Re: [SLE] Install 9.1 on old laptop On Thursday 20 May 2004 04.50, Proctor wrote:
I appologise!
alt+F9 does give a prompt. however "fdisk" returns "command not found"...
where to go from here? Is it possible to partition and format?
I'm not sure what's on the floppies. Look in / and see what directories are there. It could just be that it's in a directory there that isn't in your path
Worst case scenario: boot with some "linux on a floppy" distro (for example http://www.toms.net/rb/ ), partition, mkswap, then boot the installer, go to alt-f9 and do swapon on the swap partition you create
i booted from a slackware disk, and enabled the swap partition i made. that fixed that. however the network module is not found. hmmm.
can't find the network card or the external cdrom.
any suggestions?
You will need to know some information about both the CD-ROM and Network card, as in make and type. You should see a listing for Modules during the install process, select this, and load the modules (with any info they require) and then proceed with the installation. It's been some months since I've done this so I apologize for not remembering quite where that point in the install process is. It was required for a network install on two computers, I needed to know the NIC maker and type in order to load the correct module, which unfortunately I had to do by trial and error, but in the end it did work. Mike -- and then I lost it because Norton Anti Virus fixed the MBR