I see the problems are with laptops. There could be issues with apm,
automagically messing everything up on a suspend. Is this out of the equation?
BTW, what laptops? Some have specific hassles which cause install problems.
Have you checked the linux laptop page for a link to your ones?
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On Sat, 07 Apr 2001, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 12:10 -0400, Pierre Fortin wrote:
>
> > Glad we could help; but you found the real problem, so pat yourself on the back!
> > :>
>
> Sorry to say that: Seems that I was glad too early. The connections
> lasted for a while. I even transferred some files via ftp from molch
> to lapmolch. Large files (>2M). Then all of a sudden the connection
> became shaky. A ping showed 90% packet loss. The screen on lapmolch
> showed "eth0 time out waiting..." every 3 or 4 seconds.
>
> Now sensing that it may be a heat problem in the notebook I switched
> it off for a couple of hours. Switching it on again I get no
> connection between the 2 machines.
> Then I start my dial-up on molch to my isp. After that my internal
> connection worked again!
> So it seems to be pure coincidence with that loose screw! Something
> with the routing on molch doesn't work.
> OK, so I have to fire up my isdn first and then everything works.
> That doesn't explain the shaky connection before, though.
>
> > > Now to something totally different....
>
> > Do you have enough memory on lapmolch? I never traced the ftp install; but mine
> > would bomb because ftp requires more than my laptop's 32MB to install. NFS on
> > the other hand does not need to buffer the files during transfer. Check the
> > virtual consoles for error messages...
>
> Hmm, I tried to make a ftp-install with the SuSE system but it told
> me my memory is too small (well, my notebook's, that is!). I have 64M
> in there.
> The Mandrake system doesn't complain about memory and all I read
> about ftp-install never says anything about memory. Although there is
> not much written about that topic anyway.
>
> > Send the trace file created with: tcpdump -w tracefile
>
> I read a bit about NFS and it seems to be a lot of work to configure!
>
> Now having the mini-net working again, I tried the installation
> again. Everything works until it tries to load the 1. file from the
> server:
> "Unable to retrieve the second stage ramdisk: File not found on
> server"
> And console 3 tells me:
> "transferring 192.168.100.99//misc2/Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.gz
> to a fd" and sits there.
> /misc2 is the directory I get in when doing anonymous ftp with molch.
> This works. The files are there too. But the install program doesn't
> see them.
>
> I guess I have to live with that now. I installed a X system and now
> I'm looking for an Emacs package to install on the Slackware system.
> Pity I can't get Mandrake to run, though!
>
> wobo
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