[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

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:

---------------------

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
Breakthrough Ltd.
e-mail:  alexr@gezernet.co.il
WWW:     http://www.breakt.co.il
Tel:     972-3-5340807
         972-52-442549
ICQ:     2462621