Hello Allan, I cannot profess to be a debian expert. I too have installed linux on many machines, laptops and pcs. But, I am just finishing up an install on an IBM 760XL. All I have left is to configure X.
I can tell you what I found out. Follow the basic network install info found on the debian site or any of the great debian docs and mans. First, my network card needed the latest version of pcmcia-cs. This is because my chipset required the axnet-cs module. I chose to isntall Woody because I could get a compact install with this module from debian. I started with the Woody (testing) compact (4 disk) install. The base install went quite well. My pcmcia card was successfully id'ed and configured, and I got access to the web. I found that I didn't have to configure any modules over the automatic ones provided by the base install. Then, when reboot occured, I entered the next phase. This automatically started the 'base-config' app that completes the installation. It proceeded through the basic time, password and user setup and then proceeded back to the time setup. Infinate loop. There is a problem in the Woody base-config. So I did this. 1 - switched terminals (alt-F2) while still running base-config on primary (alt-F1) terminal, and logged in as root and removed 'base-config' (>dpkg -r base-config). 2 - downloaded base-config_1.33.18_all.deb from web onto floppy on another machine, created a /root/debs dir and coppied the new base-config to this dir 3 - installed the new base-config (dpkg -i base-config_1.33.18_all.deb) 4 - rebooted the computer. 5 - at this point the new base-config starts running and I found that I could continue the configuration. 6 - finally got to the package selection, chose what I wanted and, Wammo!, apt was getting all the packages from 'stable'. This caused all kinds of compatability problems. 7 - again, went to another terminal , logged in as root, and modified the /etc/apt/sources.list file to include the debian ... testing packages. deb ftp://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian testing main contrib 8 - from this terminal, I ran apt-get upgrade, and this caused the apt-get to update the database from both the stable and testing sights. 9 - after the update, I switched back to the main terminal (alt-F1) and continued with the installation. Base-config now had all of the packages needed from Woody to complete the install. I think this is fairly accurate, although this took about 4 days to get through for me. As I said, I am now starting the X Configuration. Just have to find out the parameters of the display and mouse. Good luck Mark -----Original Message----- From: Justin News [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 12:40 AM To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Installing Debian Linux on my Laptop Hi, I want to install linux on my IBM Thinkpad 560E. Unfortunately, i don't have a CD ROM and I'd appreciate any help someone can offer. I've installed linux before using CD ROMS and had no problems... but i'm lost as to how to install linux without CDs. I also have a network card in my laptop so is there a way to do a network installation? i've done some searching on the web but the instructions that i've found are rather vague. If anyone can help me out i'd appreciate it. Also, if you need more information about my computer and configuation i'll be more than happy to discuss it. Thank you for any assistance. -Allan _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
