Re: woody isos
On Sunday 18 August 2002 2:29 am Michael P. Soulier wrote:
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> On 17/08/02 Jamin W. Collins did speaketh:
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>> 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=3D0x180".
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> I have a PCG-SR33. I'm not sure if the same option would work in my
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> or not. How did you determine it for yours?
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> Mike
Mike
Passing ide1=0x180,0x386 to my VAIO SR21K on boot with the standard Potato
2.2r3 disc worked for me. I think the SR21 is pretty similar to the SR33 -
very slick laptops :)
Regards, Martin
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