Re: [TCLUG:6056] Help installing RH5.2 on a Laptop

[barnabas@pobox.com]

If you're not opposed to installing a different distribution, you can
still install Slackware from floppies.  Actually, all you need to
install is the base part of the distribution (about 10 diskettes) and
then you should be able to reboot and do the rest of the install from
the CD.

Eric

"Scott K. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying to install RedHat 5.2 onto a friends laptop.
> 
> Here's the problem.  He can only use a CD-Rom module OR the Floppy
> module.  He can't have both plugged in at the same time (there's only
> one bay...).
> 
> I can't get my 3C575-TX PCMCIA network card to initialize properly to
> do a network install, so...
> 
> I have copied all the install files onto his win95 partition, however,
> when the time comes in the install screens, I keep getting an error -
> "error opening directory".  I've got a directory named RedHat in this
> top level directory, with the base & RPMS directories directly under
> that.  The only thing I notice, is that win95 doesn't let me name the
> RPMS directory in all uppercase, so it looks like "Rpms"...
> 
> In the log, there are two entries:
> 
> Unable to load NLS charset: cp437(nls_cp437)
> Unable to load NLS charset: iso8859-1(nls_iso8859-1)
> 
> Anyone played with this at all?
> 
> Do I have any other options?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Scott K. Johnson
> skj@visi.com or sjohnson@hetepu.net
> http://www.hetepu.net
> 
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