On Tuesday 28 August 2001 14:47, Simon Millward wrote: > Hi, > > Trying to upgrade to Mandrake 8 on T22 Thinkpad. This has a known bug which > disables the mouse. However the Mandrake solution, quote: > -- > Mount the installation CD-ROM: mount /dev/cdrom > Change to the /mnt/cdrom/images directory > Create a new CD-ROM boot floppy: dd if=cdrom.img of=/dev/fd0 > Reboot with the installation CD in the CD-ROM drive and the floppy > containing the patch in the floppy drive. > Be sure your BIOS is set to boot from floppy diskette. > Press F1 when the first boot screen comes up to get the syslinux boot > prompt At the syslinux prompt type: patch > -- > > Does not work because the floppy/DVD/CD are hot swappable i.e. I can't have > both in at the same time. > > I've tried swapping them at the appropriate point but... it then complain > there is no CD and prompts for a driver. No driver appears to work, > although the flashing light on the laptop indicates that the hot swap > hasn't worked anyway (didn't really expect it to). > > Does anyone have an alternative solution? (I'd like to know how they > managed to do this in the first place.. unless other thinkpads have cable > floppy drives) > > Cheers Most other thinkpads do have cable floppy. So... Install Freq3 Civileme
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