Hi, On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:42:53AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:16:30AM +0100, Martin Sj�gren wrote: > > ons 2003-03-05 klockan 00.38 skrev Blake Pike: > > > Any help would be great. thanks > > > > Use the woody CDs to install and then apt-get dist-upgrade to whatever
This part, I agree. > > distribution you want to use. The sarge CDs are there for easy testing > > of debian-installer (which is still in alpha). > > Not all Vaios come with a (usable) CD drive. You might want to look at the > linux-sony mailing list/website, they have a lot of useful information. > > http://returntonature.com/pipermail/linux-sony/ > http://returntonature.com/linux/phpwiki/ > > Of course it would help a lot to know _what_ Sony Vaio you have. Let me follow up on this since I have one of it :-) Some VAIO (dockable PCG-R505 etc.) comes with firewire connected CD drive. BIOS supports boot-from-CD option and you can access boot floppy image in the CD. Only problem is you can not mount CD deive to read the rest of CD from Linux. Eduardo's new -bf2.4 now has required modules compiled in. So in theory, we should be able to boot with it with some shell action. Truth is I could not. It looks to me some USB/ACPI/... things in 2.4 kernel is still problematic. This firewire CD drive seems to be another one of it. (Install through NIC is easiest for this machine, eepro100. I used few real floppies to prime the system but tftp install is nicer) I did install Woody once without CD. I could not mount CD wioth the -bf2.4 kernel. Modules did not load the way I wanted. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cupertino CA USA, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://people.debian.org/~osamu `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
