Re: install on sony vaio laptop problems
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 Sjögren 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.
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