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RE: [PLUG] Help installing to VAIO SuperSlim...
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damn sony. nice little laptops but they're pretty proprietary. do you
have a little wheel on the lower right part of the keyboard? i found out
there are drivers for that too under kernel 2.4.10.
sure, we can get together to install off the sony cdrom sometime. next
week? how did you end with a non-sony cdrom?
stephen
-- My name is not leroy
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, William Shank wrote:
> well here is what i have discovered: this machine does support booting from
> cdrom, but it must be SONY's cdrom. the cheap addonics i have won't work.
> argghhh!!!
>
> thanks for the help so far.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Brosius
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Sent: 10/19/01 2:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Help installing to VAIO SuperSlim...
>
> On my SuSE install it's just initrd by default. About 420k. I have a
> bunch of different names for them, things like initrd.bzImage, but
> nothing with a '.gz' extension.
>
> It looks like the loadlin line should look something like:
>
> C:\LOADLIN> LOADLIN bzimage initrd=diskimage
>
> where bzimage is your kernel (zimage)
> and diskimage is your initrd file name
>
> I'm going by what I find here:
> http://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/~lermen/manual.txt
>
> Kev
>
>
> William Shank wrote:
> >
> > i tried that, but it doesn't seem to work. the file is supposed to be
> > initrd, initrd.img, or initrd.gz?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Brosius
> > To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> > Sent: 10/19/01 1:35 PM
> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Help installing to VAIO SuperSlim...
> >
> > Well, loadlin needs either a ramdisk image (initrd) or an installed
> > partition to boot (from the little bit I just read). It looks like
> all
> > you've got so far is a kernel. You may be able to copy the initrd off
> > the boot cd from SuSE, then use it.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > William Shank wrote:
> > >
> > > oh yeah, these are the files in C:\loadlin
> > >
> > > LINUX.BAT
> > > LINUX.PAR
> > > loadlin.exe
> > > SUSESAVE.MNU
> > > zimage
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > -chris
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Bill Jonas
> > > To: 'plug@lists.phillylinux.org'
> > > Sent: 10/19/01 12:04 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Help installing to VAIO SuperSlim...
> > >
> > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:36:37AM -0400, William Shank wrote:
> > > > can anyone help me out here? i usually install from boot
> disk/cdrom,
> > > so this
> > > > is foreign to me.
> > >
> > > Since the CD-ROM works in Linux (on another machine), perhaps you
> > should
> > > try using a floppy disk to boot from. (Look on your distribution's
> CD
> > > for their floppy disk images and use rawrite.exe to put it on a
> > floppy.)
> > > This would allow you to get the system up and going and then you
> might
> > > be able to mount the CD-ROM and proceed with your install.
> > >
> > > If that doesn't work, can you post details on what you're trying
> with
> > > loadlin? ie, how you're invoking it (From the command line or with
> a
> > > batch file? If with a batch file, what are the contents of it?),
> what
> > > other files you have alongside loadlin.exe and your kernel image,
> that
> > > sort of thing.
> > >
>
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