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

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

I would really like to stick with RedHat if I can, but I suppose if
that's the only option I have I would consider it.

Thanks!

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

-----Original Message-----
From: barnabas@pobox.com <barnabas@pobox.com>
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Date: Monday, May 17, 1999 6:32 AM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:6056] Help installing RH5.2 on a Laptop


>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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