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



With redhat 6.0 and I think 5.2, you can boot of the cdrom. If you can do
that, then the install should be quite easy.

Good Luck,

Ben


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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