Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:19:00 +0100 From: barnacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Installing SuSE 9.1 On Libretto L100 - MORE INFO
On Thursday 17 June 2004 10:58, you wrote: > > Mandrake may be a good choice for you - it offers an 'install from HD' > > option which only uses the floppy to boot from, as does Redhat, I > > believe. > > Well I do know Mandrake, and I have bad news: MD Linux simply won't boot > properly from floppy, not even from single floppy. > But it can be installed using the loadlin trick. > > For Mandrake up to 9.2 you can have a look at my Linux page > http://home.hccnet.nl/pr.nienhuis/MDLinux.html > (and update the loadlin command there according to the isolinux.cfg file > in your distro. > If you can't figure it out, ask again and I'll tell the command line(s) > I used) > > Be warned that although MD9.0 was quite easy > (PCMCIA-CD-ROM/HD/FTP/HTTP/NFS possible), MD9.2 is difficult to install > (only option=PCMCIA CD-ROM), and MD10.0 doesn't install at all in a > Libretto, it won't recognize the HD. Unless you build a custom install > kernel.... > > You can also try Free/Net/OpenBSD. FreeBSD does boot properly from the > two install floppies, because it initializes PCMCIA only after the > install kernel has booted completely (= way after having read floppy > #2). > > And then again, IMO Mandrake 9.2 (with kernel 2.4.22) is a bit heavy for > the poor Libby. Booting into KDE takes > 5 minutes. Chances are that > SuSe 9.1 is similarly demanding. > I intend to try VectorLinux 4, seems much more lightweighted & snappier. I found that with Mandrake and the CT70 - the highest powered Lib I have, with a speed upgrade and a big disk and the full memory I could get, I could get Mandrake up to 8.1 loaded; but I had to use text mode as there was insufficient memory to do the GUI load. ISTR the quickest way to get it running was with the HD install, though I've used PCMCIA install as well with a non-booting CD and a floppy. Needed two PC slots though. For my money, on the 70 Mandrake 7.1 was the best option by far, running kde apps on IceWm. Neil ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
