Bob Smither wrote: > > I am trying to install the testing distribution on a PIII Sony Viao > laptop. The laptop cd drive cannot be used to boot from (3rd party > PCMCIA drive) and the floppy is a usb drive.
Hmm, I can boot from my Vaio PCMCIA CD-ROM drive. I did need to add "ide2=0x180,0x386" when booting the installer though, otherwise the installer can't see the drive. (e.g. "install ide2=0x180,0x386) > After coming up, the install prompts for the root.img. When I press > enter at this point, there is an oops and the usb floppy cannot be > found. I am guessing that the install is at this point using its own > floppy driver and it expects a proper, non-usb, device. I know I had to get some custom boot floppies to install from the USB floppy drive. That was quite some time ago, maybe it has now been fixed. Here are the disks I used: http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~blochedu/usb-install/images/ Hope this helps, -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd
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