Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 21:08:13 -0700 From: Mark Srebnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Install Linux on 110CT w/FD/CD - UPDATE I
Thanks again Philip for your help! Definitely helps keep me going and not giving up on Linux! However, things don't seem to be going well for me.... Maybe I don't understand things correctly, but I did enter the command as you had written in your previous email: "loadlin vmlinuz initrd=all.rdz ramdisk_size=128000 root=/dev/ram3 acpi=off vga16" The problem with Mandrake install always was occurring after it recognized the CDRW/DVD drive (using my USB cable) and CD drive seems to take over install process. Always gets stuck when the installer says 'Configuring PCMCIA Cards'...although it's interesting that in the very top right of the installer window it says 'hard drive detection'.... Also, the floppy drive keeps working and light is continually on and doesn't go off. I tried Jim Drouillard's suggestion to disconnect floppy after CD drive starts working but makes no difference....Thanks for the suggestion Jim! So I also tried connecting my CD drive with the PCMCIA cable and used the command you wrote below. Same problem... Then tried to do your other suggestion and for some unknown reason can't seem to copy files from the DVD (from the Linux magazine). Keep getting error messages in Windows when it tries to copy file over to hard drive. Also, tried using DOS copy command after booting with Win98 boot floppy. That didn't work either! Starting to wonder if maybe there might be a problem with the files on the DVD??? Maybe best to download Linux install files myself instead of using these magazine CD's and DVD's??? I'm pretty persistent guy but this is starting to drive me nuts.... ;-) Mark on 10/15/04 3:19 PM, Philip Nienhuis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 20:53:21 +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 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 > > = kernel can't find the ramdisk file system. I think it intends to say > it can't find the image. Did you specify the ramdisk image and -size? > I do not know the commands for USB CD-ROM players. For Mandrake 9.2 to > be installed using a PCMCIA CD-ROM player I used: > > loadlin vmlinuz initrd=all.rdz root=/dev/ram3 ramdisk_size=128000 > vga=785 acpi=off pcmcia automatic=method:cdrom > > (all on one line). > Perhaps change "pcmcia" into "usb" (w/o quotes) and try again? > > If it still won't go, copy the entire \Mandrake dir from your CD-ROM to > HD, too, and use something like > > loadlin vmlinuz initrd=all.rdz root=/dev/ram3 ramdisk_size=128000 > acpi=off > > and specify a HD install when asked (it will also ask for the location > of the \Mandrake tree.). The acpi=off thing makes little difference BTW > (at least here). > BTW I figure you got just one CD-ROM for Mandrake 9.1? > >> 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?? > > Just check if there's a vmlinuz and an all.rdz file. > >> Also, wouldn't mind trying VectorLinux too... >> >> Do you use the same loadlin command or is it different? > > Vectorlinux? IIRC it is > loadlin ide rw initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/ram > or so (ide instead of vmlinuz). Details are in the vectorlinux message > board / installation forum (see their web site). > > Philip > >
