First time doing the 486 install, so I thought I'd detail anything I find. This may also help for making the 7.1/486 distro. Here goes.. - - - 1. CD HTML documentation The index.htm and install.htm files in the root of the CD-ROM need some editing to match the fact that we are using Mandrake 486. There's a number of "Pentium" comments and other things that need to be edited. - - - 2. Installation Boot Screen (SysLinux?) o To use the graphical install (DrakX), create a boot disk (see the Linux Mandrake Intsallation Guide). Big typo in the word "Intsallation". - - - 3. PCMCIA disk missing Tried to do a network/laptop install, when I discovered that the pcmcia.img was missing. Tried a few different ones, both 7.0 and 7.1. The install was apparantly looking for an ext2 formatted diskette. The ones I downloaded were vfat. Alt-F1: I failed to mount the floppy. Please insert the Linux Mandrake PCMCIA disk, or choose Cancel to pick a different installation process. Alt-F3: * calling mount(/tmp/fd0, /tmp/floppy, ext2, -1058209791, (nil)) * mounting fd0 on /tmp/floppy as type ext2 Alt-F4: <4>VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev fd(2,0). I formatted it for ext2 and copied the files over manually, but that didn't help. Alt-F1: I failed to mount the floppy. Please insert the Linux Mandrake PCMCIA disk, or choose Cancel to pick a different installation process. Alt-F3: * calling mount(/tmp/fd0, /tmp/floppy, ext2, -1058209791, (nil)) * mounting fd0 on /tmp/floppy as type ext2 No messages on Alt-F4. I finally discovered that Mandrake 6.1 used ext2 floppies, so I used the pcmcia.img from 6.1. It got passed that first error, but wouldn't work, as it kept saying "insmod failed!" I'm guessing due to the kernel version mismatches. - - - 4. Gave up Well, as I don't have a CD-ROM drive for this laptop, and the only kind of NIC I had was PCMCIA, and since there's no pcmcia.img anywhere that I can find, for now, I'm giving up. Let me know if someone has a pcmcia.img for this install, I'd be happy to continue. - - - Don Head Linux Mentor Wave Technologies, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [AIM - Don Wave][ICQ - 18804935] [IRC - EFnet, #WaveTech, Don-Wave]
