* Andrew Perrin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings- > > I'm thinking about picking up a used Sony Vaio PCG-GR100K, but I'm > concerned about running Debian successfully on it. > > - Has anyone been able to do so? > - What problems have you run into? > - Specifically, apparently this series uses a USB floppy drive (and maybe > CD too). How would I boot and begin installation in this scenario?
My vaio has a firewire DVD-ROM drive. I was nervous too. It turns out the bios can boot fine from the CD, but the installer then can't mount the CD once it's booted (lack of firewire drivers etc). So I copied the data from the cd onto my fileserver and nfs exported it. The CD was used to boot the installer then I told the installer to find the base archives on the nfs mount. The rest was done over ftp. Tom. -- .^. .-------------------------------------------------------. /V\ | Tom Gilbert, London, England | http://linuxbrit.co.uk | /( )\ | Open Source/UNIX consultant | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ^^-^^ `-------------------------------------------------------' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
