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Re: Anyone has installed Linux on Laptop ?
> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 09:10:25 +0200 (IST)
> From: Joel Ratsaby <jer@ee.technion.ac.il>
> To: linux-il@linux.org.il
> Subject: Anyone has installed Linux on Laptop ?
> Reply-to: Joel Ratsaby <jer@ee.technion.ac.il>
>
> I am trying to install Linux on my Laptop.
> I have a CD-ROM Panasonic KXL-720, which interfaces to my
> laptop via a SCSI card PCMCIA.
> I have the RH 4.2 CDROM from which I want to install.
> However at some point during the automatic installaion
> I need to choose which CDROM I want. I tried both IDE
> and SCSI but I dont see a Panasonic on the list of manufacturers.
> I contacted Panasonic but did not get a reply.
> Does anyone in Israel installed on a Laptop ?
> I thought perhaps to copy the CDROM to the harddisk (
> I only partitioned 150Meg on the Laptop for Linux) I have
> 340Meg partition of DOS and then install it from the hard disk.
> Will that work ? Any other ideas ?
>
> thanks
>
> Joel Ratsaby
> 09-742-4460
> jer@ee.technion.ac.il
Yeah, yeah, yeah...
I've tried to do the same with Compaq Notebook +
Adaptec PCMCIA SCSI + External CD-ROM.
1'st you have to install PCMCIA support.
Then you system should be able to work with the CD-ROM.
I failed to install PCMCIA support because I couldn't
find exact configuration parameters.
If you succeed, let me know.
Here is more complete information:
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From: Self <alex>
To: linux-il@linux.org.il
Subject: Compaq Armada Notebook AHA-1420 PCMCIA Problem
Reply-to: alexr@gezernet.co.il
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 16:09:00
Hi,
I'm trying to install PCMCIA support on a notebook and it doesn't
work.
System:
Compaq Armada Notebook + 32Mb RAM + 1Gb HDisk
PCMCIA SCSI Card Adaptec AHA-1420 Slim SCSI
SCSI CD-ROM NEC
Debian Release 1.2
Linux Kernel 2.0.27 (including PCMCIA, SCSI support)
Yes, I did read following documentation:
Frequently Asked Questions and HOWTOs
The Linux Laptop Home Page
Linux Hardware HOWTO
Linux PCMCIA Information
http://www.aplac.hut.fi/staff/sakari/armada.html
http://www.ma.ultranet.com/~bniece/laptop.html
Problem:
When I run "/etc/init.d/pcmcia start", it beeps one high beep and
one
low beep.
It does recognise Cirrus PCMCI hardware but it doesn't recognise
properly
AHA-1420 PCMCIA card. It identifies it as "Anonymous Memory Card".
And
the SCSI doesn't work.
Please, send me all the relevant PCMCIA/SCSI configuration files for
such configuration.
Any help will be appreciated.
Please send replies to mailto:alexr@gezernet.co.il
Alexander Rier
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