Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:42:28 -0400 From: Rick Mansfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: RedHat Fedora 4 on the L110...
I was completely successful in my install finally. I did not remove the hard drive from the Libretto, and I only used the floppy and the Backpack cdrom drive that originally came with the 110ct. Basically I created a dos partition using freedos to which I copied the iso files for the disks. Then I started Slinky, a variant of busybox linux designed to install Fedora on low resource machines. The catch is, Slinky has problems supporting the PCMCIA cd drive as well as all the (low-quality) network cards I threw at it. I spent a long time copying over modules through the dos partition in an attempt to make it work, but I couldn't, so I just used the iso method. Aside from that, it was pretty simple (though it took me forever and a million reboots to actually do it). Slinky installs ultra-minimum packages so I spent awhile first with RPM, then with Yum installing all sorts of things. My Libretto is happy now, though :) On 10/20/05, Chris Hogan (social) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:32:59 +0100 > From: "Chris Hogan \(social\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [LIB] RedHat Fedora 4 on the L110... > > I haven't actually tried this yet but what you describe is my next step. I > think you will need to expand the ISO file rather than copy it directly > onto > the partition though. Then use SmartBootManager to boot from floppy and > point to the partition. > > This is all a really irritating by-product of the assumption that all PCs > can now boot from CD.... I was pleasantly surprised to find that the boot > floppy for RedHat 8.1, the last distribution I put on a Libby, recognised > the USB port on the docking station. SmartBootManager unfortunately > doesn't. > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Mansfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 October 2005 23:43 > To: Libretto > Subject: [LIB] RedHat Fedora 4 on the L110... > > > Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:41:35 -0400 > From: Rick Mansfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RedHat Fedora 4 on the L110... > > I've spent the last 12 hours or so trying to make this install work, > but there always seems to be a problem. Right now I've moved on to the > idea of using Win2k to copy over the ISO files to a spare > partition...if that doesn't work, I'll be forced to yank the HD and > hook it up to a desktop PC. It would probably also be easier with the > docking station USB, because USB devices would probably work while the > PCMCIA slot seems to not. Has anyone else managed to do this install? > > -- > -Rick > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.2/140 - Release Date: 18/10/2005 > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.2/140 - Release Date: 18/10/2005 > > > > -- -Rick
