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

[Nate Carlson <natecars@infiniteloop.com>]

You should be able to copy all the files from the cd onto a dos partition,
and install that way... I did it a long time ago, and it worked ok. I
don't really remember how I did it.. but I think I just xcopy'd the whole
cd over.

----
Nate Carlson
the infinite loop
natecars@infiniteloop.com

On Mon, 17 May 1999, Scott K. Johnson wrote:

> 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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