[newbie] Help: LM7.1 installation on notebook

[Lawrence Lee]

Hi,

I'm now trying to install LM7.1 Deluxe on my SONY VAIO
notebook. After having tried for a few weeks, I still
cannot complete the installation. DrakX halt at
the "install system" step. Text mode installation does
not response when it "Setup filesystems". The boot
image for the SCSI problem in FAQ doesn't react to the
'patch' keyword. I want to take a break and isolate
the installation problem from your experience.  

Any one of you have successfully installed LM7.1 (or
any other version) on your SONY VAIO notebook? or
failed to do so? Please list the configuration on the
model number, floppy drive(internal or USB), HD
Capacity and CD-ROM drive (internal or SCSI).

Thanks for your help.

Brgds/ Lawrence Lee



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[newbie] DrakX halt while installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe on SONY PCG-SR9G/T notebook

[Lawrence Lee]

Hi, I am trying hard to install Linux-Mandrake 7.1
Deluxe on my new notebook computer SONY PCG-SR9G/T
with a 12.1GB harddisk. The best way I can do is
installing from harddisk. 

I've made 7 subdirectories: disk1 .. disk7 on a spare
partition d: and copied files from the 7 installation
disks to the above 7 subdirectories by the "xcopy *
/s" DOS command.

Everything looks fine in DrakX until the "please wait,
look for available packages" message appears. After
this message disappeared, the installation program
halt at the "install system" step. Nothing shown on
the screen except those installation steps on the left
side.

I've also tried to use the text mode installation. The
install program halt on the "Linux-Mandrake
Installation Setup filesystems" screen. Only this
title on the top and those function keys at the bottom
are displayed. I've to reboot my notebook for both
cases. 

Two pieces of information may be useful to diagnose
the problem. First, when I used the text mode
installation from harddisk, I got the following
warning message:

  The number of cylinders for this disk is set to
1467.
  There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger
than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems
with:
  1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
  2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
  (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Second, the Sony notebook has reserved about 500M on
the harddisk for its own usage. The DOS fdisk command
shows only 11507MB total disk space with 3828M for
primary partition and 7680M for the extended
partition. When I tried to use the auto allocation for
swap and ext2 partition, the bars representing the
first two FAT32 partitions shift unexpectedly. I've
bypassed this problem by using FDISK to reallocate the
partitions manually and changing the partition type to
'swap' and 'ext2' using the DrakX installation
program. I wonder if the reserved space cause some
calculation problem for the auto allocation and some
other problems later on. 

FYI, it is a P-III 600 machine with 64M RAM.

Thanks for your help.

Lawrence Lee


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