More adventures with thinkpad and linux: install methods

[Dawes, Stephen]

Cheryl,

Do you have access to a network connection? If so, try a install over
the internet. I have done it a number of times successfully.

If not, you may have success with booting from CD for the RedHat
install.



Stephen Dawes  <B.A., B.Sc.>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cheryl Homiak [mailto:chomiak at chartermi.net]
> Sent: 2002 August 26 9:33 AM
> To: speakup
> Subject: More adventures with thinkpad and linux: install methods
> 
> 
> Ok, keep in mind that i'm not yet able to connect to a 
> network or the Internet,
> so that limits my install possibilities. First I tried the 
> old debian woody
> floppies enabled with speakup; was able to do the preliminary 
> steps but had a
> problem when I used the floppies for the base system. they 
> wouldn't extract
> properly after being loaded, maybe because the base system 
> floppies are much
> later than the woody pre-release disks on the speakup site. 
> Tried it twice with
> two sets of floppies; no error messages on any of the 
> floppies themselves. Then
> decided to try red hat, not wanting to go back clear to 
> potato in debian and
> feeling adventurous. great documentation of the install with 
> speakup, btw. Cdrom
> sounded like an airplane starting off the runway but then 
> like one landing and
> turning off engines; must not be set up to boot from cdrom? 
> though floppy is.
> Can't use floppies because cdrom and floppy drive are 
> interchangeable; I hear
> that may eventually be solvable by getting a cable for the 
> floppy drive for
> external; not sure about that. Went ahead and installed DOS 
> with speech since
> i'd
> already partitioned with debian. Unfortunately still can't 
> install Red Hat from
> hard drive because I have no way to get the raw .iso files 
> onto my hard drive.
> Was
> able to get my cdrom going in DOS with a generic cdrom 
> driveer:  oakcdrom.sys.
> Are there any other alternatives for doing an install I 
> haven't thought
> of, and is there any way to change the boot sequence with the 
> thinkpad utilities
> like I did the serial port? Also, when I finally do get this 
> running, if I
> decide to install red hat, is there any way to not have Disk 
> Druid mess up my
> partitions?
> In other words, will I still have to go through and put in mount
> points or is there a way just to get it to recognize and use 
> the partitions
> and mount points that have been done and go on from there?
> Really enjoying my thinkpad, btw.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Cheryl
> 
> 
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