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

[Nate Carlson <natecars@infiniteloop.com>]

Can you hotswap the cd-rom and floppy? I did an install once where I
booted off the floppy, pulled the drive out, and popped the cd-rom in..
worked great.

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Nate Carlson
the infinite loop
natecars@infiniteloop.com

On Mon, 17 May 1999, 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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