From: Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: LINUX ON LAPTOP
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:47:38 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206251245270.21625-100000@toccata.rednote.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001101c21c67$f24df640$117e7ad5@oemcomputer>
I would doubt that you could swap devices to proceed with the
installation.
If you have a means to create .iso images on your hd of the two
7.2 installation cdroms, you can install from a boot floppy using
the iso images.
What exactly happens when you boot to the CDROM? You do do it
from a cold start, right?
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Michael Weaver wrote:
> Hi!
> Today I tried to install Redhat 7.2 on my Compaq laptop.
> With the use of the floppy disk we created of my system files, my personal
> assistant or support worker managed to boot to DOS and with Fips managed to
> partition my drive.
> However, my CDROM drive wouldn't boot when the first Installation CD was
> inserted so he had to use rawwrite to create a boot image disk for Redhat.
> We managed to start the installation for Redhat but the problem was we kept
> getting error messages so we had to terminate the installation. Also my
> Compaq laptop is one where the CDROM drive and floppy drive are
> interchangable which means you can't run both at the same time, you have to
> have either the CDROM drive or floppy drive.
> Could anyone possibly give me any advice?
> Could it be that 7.2 doesn't support laptops and that the higher 7.3 version
> of redhat or a different flavour of Linux should take me through the
> installation without any problems?
> The installation problems occured after the welcoming screen for Redhat
> Linux.
> Will I have any problem wif I ever get to the part where I will have to
> switch drives from my Boot image disk to my CDROM to continue the
> installation of Redhat?
>
>
>
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