Re: Etch Beta 2 / USB Floppy
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 14:41 +0100, George Borisov wrote:
> 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)
>From reading the Sony information, it appears that the _Sony_ pcmcia cd
drive is bootable. This system was a gift, and the owner had purchased
a 3rd party TEAC drive. The TEAC drive will not boot :-(. I'm guessing
that your drive is a Sony?
> 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/
Thanks - I will look at those.
Regards,
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