Subject: Re: Installing linux on Thinkpad 760xl
From: Ray Pendergraph (raypendergraph@my-deja.com)
Date: Fri Dec 15 2000 - 15:04:03 GMT+1
most of these are model specific but here are some suggestions. I am not
familiar with your model.
1) Boot from the CD if able. (Not having this is a *real* pain in the
#$%^.)
2) Use the cable so you can use the floppy and the CD at once. (I use
this on the 770)
3) Use a floppy to install a minimal installation on the hard drive (a
kernel with is09660 and ide support and supporting utilities)and then
mount the CDROM and run the configuration script that would have been
run when you booted off of it. Depending on your distro there may be a
utility to create this disk and /or a boot disk.
I hope this helps, there are many details in step three and I have never
used Caldera. I know Slackware comes with these utilities.
In article <Zjq_5.5626$UN1.565053@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>,
"fc676" <fc676@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an old Thinkpad 760xl and I'm trying to install Linux on it but
I
> don't have access to the cdrom drive when I boot off the floppy since
I have
> to swap drives on this machine. Is there another method of
> installation? I've tried copying files off the cdrom to the hard
drive but
> I don't know what to do next. The version I'm trying to install is
> Caldera's Openlinux 2.3.
>
> Any help is much appreciated. Thanks
>
> --Frank
>
>
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