On 17/08/02 Jamin W. Collins did speaketh: > I too have a Sony VAIO laptop (PCG-C1VN) that does not have an internal > floppy or cdrom. I've installed a variety of Linux distributions on it > using the PCMCIA CD drive and haven't needed any special holding > partitions. In fact the only item that was needed was to pass a kernel > option on startup, "ide2=0x180". I have a PCG-SR33. I'm not sure if the same option would work in my case or not. How did you determine it for yours? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html
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