go to http://www.linux.org and do a search for laptops. It will give you the
Linux laptop page. There are some links there that go to pages that give
info about installing linux on a winbook.
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael D. Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 2:48 PM
Subject: [newbie] Install problems...
> I have a WinBook Laptop computer and I am trying to figure out how to
> install Mandrake RH6.0.
>
> I can not get the computer to recognize the CD-ROM drive.
>
> Here is what is going on...
>
> 1. I insert the removable floppy drive and boot from the boot disk.
> 2. When I get to the point where it asks me to pick which cd-rom drive
> to use, I remove the floppy drive and insert the cd-rom drive with the
> CD #1 in it.
> 3. I went through the entire list for CD-ROM drivers and it can not
> find the cd-rom.
> 4. It is not SCSI.
>
> I have an external CD-ROM drive as well that hooks up to the parallel
> port as well. I tried it and it can not be found. The CD-ROM is a
> "Backpack".
>
> I tried Fdisk the hard drive and copied the 9 files from the boot disk
> to it to see if it may be a problem from swapping the CD-Rom with the
> Floppy drive. I can not get it to boot from the hard drive. I fdisked
> the hard drive using DOS 6.0 fdisk utility and formatted it. I copied
> the boot disk to the hard drive and it would not boot from the hard
> drive.
>
> I just need to install Apache web server and X-Windows so I can show off
> a working copy of my web site when I am on the road.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
