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Re: [Plug] How to load linux on a laptop??
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Dan,
Do you by any chance have the cable to connect your floppy drive
externally? I think there's a special port for the floppy drive on your
laptop (or maybe it uses the parallel port?) It would be better if you
could keep the CD-ROM online the whole time. It doesn't like to hot
swap. Maybe you can put a boot image on your hard drive somehow?
Actually, if you're installing RedHat, I think you can boot the
installation image from the CD-ROM with a special utility called
loadlin.exe (look for autoboot in /dosutils). The hard part is also
getting the PCMCIA support loaded. Oh well, someone else here probably
knows more about it than I do. --Josh
Daniel G Roberts wrote:
>
>
>> Hello all
>
> I have never installed Linux on a laptop..and I am seeking some help
> here.
>
> What I have so far is I have made a bootable disk use RAWRITE and then
> I can boot a linux kernel from this floppy.
>
> From here I need to slid out my floppy disk drive and slide in my
> cdrom drive and throw in a RedHat 6.0 installation CD...but my problem
> is that I can't get the cdrom to mount. How do I go abopt mounting a
> toshiba drive on an AST laptop after I have booted the laptop with a
> floppy drive which I then have to disconnect from the machine in
> order to slide in the CDROM device.
>
>
> Thanks for the help!!!
>
> Dan
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