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

["Scott K. Johnson" <skj@visi.com>]

I tried that, but it didn't work.  The CD-Rom drive didn't even have
power when I swapped it in.

Also, I've tried booting from the CD, but his laptop doesn't have that
option.

Thanks!

Scott K. Johnson
skj@visi.com - http://www.hetepu.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Carlson <natecars@infiniteloop.com>
To: TCLUG <tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com>
Date: Monday, May 17, 1999 7:06 AM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:6056] Help installing RH5.2 on a Laptop


>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.
>
>----
>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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