Re: Portege 7020ct
> 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 Images-1.44. Also, is the installer looking for
> a relative path or an absolute path? If relative, is images-1.44 in
> the directory where you started.
i had all right... which is why i was so confused...
what worked was mounting the dos partition that the files were in first
and pointing it at the mount point, rather then trying to point linux at
the dos partition...
> (I don't have full context, but it sounds like you are doing a
> 'loadlin' boot from an MS-DOS file system. I got that to work,
> but it took me a couple of tries to get the files in the right place.)
yeah, the boot floppies are useless with the external pcmcia floppy
drive...
i installed redhat, then used that to create a dos partition and ftp the
files into it, then bootstrap the install out of that...
later
marty
"I can't buy what I want because it's free. Can't be what they want
because I'm me." - Corduroy, Pearl Jam
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