Hi All
I have just updated the Thinkpad to Mandrake 10.1.
I added this to a posting I made to the thinkpad list simply as a record in
the archives of how.
The only major issue so far is the installation procedure is screwey.
As a minor secondary issue I could not add spaces between icons so I could not
space icons as I wanted in KMail. I have not tried other windows yet.
Thanks for the help.
Frank
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Hi All
Given the information so kindly supplied by Jacob I started exploring and
succeeded.
In order to make an "Additional Drivers Floppy' from a 10.1 Mandrake DVD I did
the following.
1. Used new 1.44 MB floppy that will format to 1.72 MB
Old 1.44 MB floppies will not format to a higher level and thus miss fire with
10.1 saying incorrectly formatted disk.
2. Formatted floppy with stand formatting to ext2 format.
Format must be ext2 and quick format produces bad results.
3. Copied file:/mnt/cdrom/install/images/network_drivers.img to floppy
by terminal with command line set to /mnt/cdrom/install/images/
by:
dd if=network_drivers.img of=dev/fd0
4. Floppy did not mount or be readable after copying. Why = unknown.
5. Started installation normally with both floppy and DVD in drive.
Clicked of on Mandrake's screw up and installation started.
Frank
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 08:13, jacob Klitmøller wrote:
> SOTL wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 December 2004 02:17, jacob Klitmøller wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Your problem sounds familiar. I've had the very same trying to install
> Mandrake 10.0 and 10.1 from CD (not DVD) on a Thinkpad 760ED.
> As far as I can tell the problem is that the installation process
> 'thinks' it is installing from a floppy. The 'additional driver floppy'
> is a floppy image located on the cds (and probably on your DVD). On the
> CD it is located in /path/to/cd/install/images/*. There is a choice of
> cddrivers, networkdrivers and PCMCIA. Hopefully you can get the driver
> for your dvd-drive there.
> Since the floppy and CD-drive in my 760ED are swapable I have been
> unable to test if it works. Mandrake 9.1 and 9.2 does not have this
> problem and till now this is what I use.
>
> Hope it helps
>
> Jacob Klitmøller
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