Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-23 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi > > trying to install 2.2r1 from floppies produced from the cds onto a portege > 7020ct. > > i get the "boot failed" message after the it starts to boot the kernel. > Weird... I've successfully installed 2.2 on my 7020 Don't remember doing anything s

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-23 Thread marty
> Forgive me if I am suggesting what is already obvious. I don't know > your level of familiarity... it would probably help if i let people know that i am fairly familiar with linux... :) > Did you match case when you created these directories? images-1.44 > is not the same as Ima

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-23 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi > > trying to install 2.2r1 from floppies produced from the cds onto a portege > 7020ct. > > i get the "boot failed" message after the it starts to boot the kernel. > Weird... I've successfully installed 2.2 on my 7020 Don't remember doing anything

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-23 Thread marty
> Forgive me if I am suggesting what is already obvious. I don't know > your level of familiarity... it would probably help if i let people know that i am fairly familiar with linux... :) > Did you match case when you created these directories? images-1.44 > is not the same as Im

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-22 Thread James Tapping
Hello These are the files that I used from windows and starting the installation with loadlin. These are all in a folder called linux c:/linux base2_2.tgz (not used i think) drivers.tgz install.bat linux loadlin.exe rescue.bin root.bin When you get to the part about using images-144 and rescue.

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-22 Thread James Tapping
Hello These are the files that I used from windows and starting the installation with loadlin. These are all in a folder called linux c:/linux base2_2.tgz (not used i think) drivers.tgz install.bat linux loadlin.exe rescue.bin root.bin When you get to the part about using images-144 and rescue

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-22 Thread marty
> http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~krisrose/ftp/Debian/Libretto/bo/ > > Here is the link that I mostly used to get my libretto running Debian. It > is a little old but the idea is there. alright, i can get into the installer but i get up to the "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules" and hit a snag

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-22 Thread marty
> http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~krisrose/ftp/Debian/Libretto/bo/ > > Here is the link that I mostly used to get my libretto running Debian. It > is a little old but the idea is there. alright, i can get into the installer but i get up to the "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules" and hit a snag.

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-18 Thread James Tapping
also as I used a windows for the install, I didn't have to mess about with zipping evrything either... On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, marty wrote: > > http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~krisrose/ftp/Debian/Libretto/bo/ > > > > Here is the link that I mostly used to get my libretto running Debian. It > > is a little

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-18 Thread James Tapping
definately get newer images, they are all available at ftp.debian.org or a mirror. I don't think I used any of the files from the link that I gave you. On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, marty wrote: > > http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~krisrose/ftp/Debian/Libretto/bo/ > > > > Here is the link that I mostly used to g

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-18 Thread marty
> http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~krisrose/ftp/Debian/Libretto/bo/ > > Here is the link that I mostly used to get my libretto running Debian. It > is a little old but the idea is there. those disk images are a little old (ie debian 1.3)... i haven't worked withanything from that far back... will there be

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-18 Thread James Tapping
http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~krisrose/ftp/Debian/Libretto/bo/ Here is the link that I mostly used to get my libretto running Debian. It is a little old but the idea is there. > what if the hard drive is blank though... can i boot with a dos boot disk > and then bootstrap into the install ?? I would

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-18 Thread marty
> If it is anything like the libretto, you need to bootstrap the install > from windows because the debian install dosn't recognise the floppy > drive. ok. sounds reasonable enough... (pointers to how-to for bootstrapping from DOS??) what if the hard drive is blank though... can i boot with a dos

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-18 Thread James Tapping
If it is anything like the libretto, you need to bootstrap the install from windows because the debian install dosn't recognise the floppy drive. On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, marty wrote: > hi > > trying to install 2.2r1 from floppies produced from the cds onto a portege > 7020ct. > > i get the "boot

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-18 Thread James Tapping
also as I used a windows for the install, I didn't have to mess about with zipping evrything either... On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, marty wrote: > > http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~krisrose/ftp/Debian/Libretto/bo/ > > > > Here is the link that I mostly used to get my libretto running Debian. It > > is a littl

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-18 Thread James Tapping
definately get newer images, they are all available at ftp.debian.org or a mirror. I don't think I used any of the files from the link that I gave you. On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, marty wrote: > > http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~krisrose/ftp/Debian/Libretto/bo/ > > > > Here is the link that I mostly used to

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-18 Thread marty
> http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~krisrose/ftp/Debian/Libretto/bo/ > > Here is the link that I mostly used to get my libretto running Debian. It > is a little old but the idea is there. those disk images are a little old (ie debian 1.3)... i haven't worked withanything from that far back... will there b

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-18 Thread James Tapping
http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~krisrose/ftp/Debian/Libretto/bo/ Here is the link that I mostly used to get my libretto running Debian. It is a little old but the idea is there. > what if the hard drive is blank though... can i boot with a dos boot disk > and then bootstrap into the install ?? I would

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-18 Thread marty
> If it is anything like the libretto, you need to bootstrap the install > from windows because the debian install dosn't recognise the floppy > drive. ok. sounds reasonable enough... (pointers to how-to for bootstrapping from DOS??) what if the hard drive is blank though... can i boot with a do

Re: Portege 7020ct

2001-04-18 Thread James Tapping
If it is anything like the libretto, you need to bootstrap the install from windows because the debian install dosn't recognise the floppy drive. On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, marty wrote: > hi > > trying to install 2.2r1 from floppies produced from the cds onto a portege > 7020ct. > > i get the "boo