Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:46:02 -0700 From: Mark Srebnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Install Linux on 110CT w/FD/CD - UPDATE I
Hi Philip, Thanks for the advice... Just tried what you suggested with Mandrake... After starting the install with the loadlin command as you describe, got a bunch of text and at the end: Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 01:03 Now, I did copy over the alt0 directory on the CD I have. However, wonder if it matters or not that this was a CD from a Linux magazine?? Also, wouldn't mind trying VectorLinux too... Do you use the same loadlin command or is it different? Thanks, Mark on 10/14/04 10:24 AM, Philip Nienhuis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:24:24 +0200 > From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Install Linux on 110CT w/FD/CD - UPDATE I > > Mark Srebnik wrote: >> >> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:57:42 -0700 >> From: Mark Srebnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [LIB] Install Linux on 110CT w/FD/CD - UPDATE I >> >> Thanks as always Philip for your input! > > Here's some more. Try to install from HD. > > Simply copy the contents of \isolinux\alt0 on MDK9.1 CDROM #1 to a > directory on your HD. > > Next download > ftp://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/pub/linux/loadlin-1.6/update-1.6c/loadlin.exe.gz > (= latest loadlin.exe) > and unpack it with winzip or so into this \isolinux\alt0 directory on > your HD. > > Then boot into plain DOS (when booting W98, hit F8 early in the boot > process to get a menu and choose the lowermost option, otherwise boot > from a DOS floppy). > Then, change directory to \isolinux\alt0 on your HD and start the > installation with: > loadlin vmlinuz initrd=all.rdz ramdisk_size=128000 root=/dev/ram3 > acpi=off vga16 > and see how far you get this time. > >> Any way to get a Linux LiveCD to work??? > > On a Libretto? Not that I know of. > > BTW I just tried VectorLinux 4.3 and installed it on my Lib110. Worked > the same way using loadlin; only thing is that all installation files > had to be copied to a directory \veclinux on HD (some 400 MB in total). > VectorLinux is *much* faster than Mandrake, boots faster and it has a > very recent kernel (2.6.x). > One glitch is that I couldn't get my HP Deskjet printer to work (it may > be that the cups network printer driver is broken). For the rest I like > VL43 very well. > > Good luck, > > P. > >
