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Re: [PLUG] "Current" Linux on old laptop
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It doesn't have that choice. It never gave me that choice at all.
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Stephen Gran wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:49:41AM -0400, jazzman@exdomain.org said:
> > Well I downloaded them all, but I only burnt the first 4 or 5 for now... I
> > reburnt the first disc and sure enough it starts properly now. The issue
> > I'm having now (And I've had someone look at this with me and they're just
> > as baffled) is that I made boot floppies from the images on CD1, booted
> > from them, and yet it STILL insists on trying to install from the network,
> > which doesn't work because the boot floppies don't like my pcmcia card. Am
> > I missing something? How do I tell it NOT to go out to the net for
> > installation files? I know it can see/mount the cd, so why does it need
> > the network?
>
> That's the bit where you choose an apt 'method', I think - try going
> back to that part, and choosing an apt source as the local cdrom instead
> of a network source.
>
> It may not be visible in normal mode, so you may have to boot expert or
> expert26, depending on whether you are running the installer on a 2.4 or
> 2.6 kernel.
>
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