On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 14:41 +0100, George Borisov wrote: > Bob Smither wrote: > > > > I am trying to install the testing distribution on a PIII Sony Viao > > laptop. The laptop cd drive cannot be used to boot from (3rd party > > PCMCIA drive) and the floppy is a usb drive. > > Hmm, I can boot from my Vaio PCMCIA CD-ROM drive. I did need to add > "ide2=0x180,0x386" when booting the installer though, otherwise the > installer can't see the drive. (e.g. "install ide2=0x180,0x386)
>From reading the Sony information, it appears that the _Sony_ pcmcia cd drive is bootable. This system was a gift, and the owner had purchased a 3rd party TEAC drive. The TEAC drive will not boot :-(. I'm guessing that your drive is a Sony? > I know I had to get some custom boot floppies to install from the USB > floppy drive. That was quite some time ago, maybe it has now been fixed. > > Here are the disks I used: > > http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~blochedu/usb-install/images/ Thanks - I will look at those. Regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
