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win98 install on Dell CPi laptop - any tips?
From searching this news group the only thing I have found close to my problem is this: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/novell.support.netware.6x. install-upgrade/browse_thread/thread/2d715955e962d369/b733dd83e8b6a8f7 My guess is that the OS just doesn't support my laptop processor :| as I have no spare machines

5.0 Installation on Laptop Problem
Greg Lehey g...@lemis.com mpc lists freebsd questions On Fri, Dec 26, 1997 at 02:01:04AM -0500, Wei Weng wrote: Hi I have a question concerning about laptop install freebsd My laptop can only use cdrom or floppy one at one time. So I have to switch them aroudn if I want ot install freebsd.

Laptop Install Issue
Andreas Schulze-Bäing mib...@yahoo.com comp sys laptops Am Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:21:31 -0300 schrieb HaGGaR: Would anyone reccomend a manufacturer of a laptop that is not issued related with drivers, ease of use? The business series of the main manufacturers might be worth a look. These are the HP nc, Lenovo Thinkpad,

Laptop Install
Bjorn Landemoo bj...@landemoo.com microsoft public windowsnt setup Ron Check out for instance SystemSoft's CardWizard, or your laptop provider for drivers. NT support for PCMCIA is somewhat limited. Best regards Bjorn -- Bjorn Landemoo - bj...@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/ Microsoft MVP - Windows NT

laptop install-no cd rom
AF Cano a...@shibaya.lonestar.org linux debian laptop On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:21:26AM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: I know this list is committed to debian on laptops, but see quite a few references to debian derivatives, so perhaps this is not entirely OT. When I install on a desktop box, I can be reasonably sure

Laptop install challenge
Airman Basic whoever9...@yahoo.com microsoft public win2000 networking Temporarily install the hard drive in another machine with a CDROM, format it and copy the I386 folder to it, then put it back in your laptop, boot from a DOS boot floppy and run WINNT.exe from that folder. carlos wrote: I have 5 floppy disk for

laptop install
I just bought a used laptop, which was booting REEEEEALLLLY slowly, so I decided to do a clean install of the Win98 CD. Unfortunately, the CD is for Win98 UPGRADE (why the laptop mfgr would do that, I'm not at all sure.) I now have a really fast DOS machine. [sigh] Do I have to go out and spend $90++ bucks for new

How many of you?
WCH whexeterDELETEthisP...@yahoo.com alt os linux I'm trying to install Linux to an older laptop so I can learn how to use it. I've got a Toshiba Portege 3110CT with 128MB RAM and a 9GB drive that I used PartitionMagic to create a 5GB Linux partition. I bought a copy of SAMS "Teach Yourself Red Hat Linux Fedora"

Laptop install woes
I was hoping this laptop re-install would clear up any problems. Alas I still suffer from the same problem and as it is a fresh new install of XP I really don't understand how this can be. Is it possible that some existing software I have is wrecking something? Also, pgadmin is not showing me the 'jobs' tree item

Laptop install trouble...
s. keeling keel...@spots.ab.ca alt os linux xixixle...@my-dejanews.com writes: Hi, I've been trying to do the ftp based dos install for caldera's base 1.2 on my laptop, through win95, but part of the problem is 95, the download gets about two thirds done when 95 freezes for lack of a better description,

Laptop install of XP Home - problem
Megabrain megabr...@cyberdude.com microsoft public win95 setup Chris Caruso wrote: Disgruntled employee fdisk'd her laptop before leaving - I now have the pleasure of re-installing 95. Problem: No CD player for the laptop and I only have the cdrom install disk. Question: Can I make floppies from the CD?

Solaris laptop install failure
Manuel Bouyer bou...@antioche.eu.org muc lists netbsd port i386 On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 01:25:53AM -0500, Todd wrote: Hello, I posted a couple weeks back about some problems I was having installing 1.5.2 on a Zenith Z-Lite 425L and a ThinkPad 755Cs. The Zenith, I'm happy to say, is running well on 1.5.2.

laptop install
I have NOT done a DELL Laptop install before * We DON'T have any original Dell CDs * We DO have a new WIn98SE CD * I DO have access to internet while installing * We have a XirCom RealPort CardBus Ethernet 10/100+Modem56 PCMCIA card (could NOT get it working - the Multi-Function Parent would not install - even

Laptop install questions
The laptop specs are as follows: Dell Latitude XP 4100C 640x480x256 color display 810 mb hard drive 12mb ram trakball mouse (built-in) 28.8 PC Card modem (Megahertz CC4288) The download and install went smoothly. I did note a warning message during setup that explained that the video default for this demo is

fedora locks during laptop install
Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org mailing openbsd www I am trying to install 3.4 distro on a eMachines M6805 Laptop with the AMD Athlon64 3000+ processor [...] "npx0 at iso0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16" It stalls out and never comes back to it, I have to hard boot the system. You need at least OpenBSD

Laptop install of Win98 Update after FORMAT
Bob Martin bmar...@meta3.net alt linux Charlie Marshall wrote: I am installing on an old TI TravelMate 5000 laptop. I am having some problems. Can someone tell me when to put the supplemental disk in? I used the boot disk, but then it just lists the following forever: PCI: Discovered primary peer bus xx (lists all

Laptop Install - No CDROM
Manuel Bouyer bou...@antioche.lip6.fr fa netbsd users On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 10:54:02AM -0800, Ian Main wrote: Hello, I have a Eurocom laptop, which I am trying to install NetBSD on, but it doesn't want to complete the boot stage. It's a fairly standard system: Celeron 433 128M ram Mach64 video ps/2 mouse etc.

Help: Laptop install with X700
David Lindgren d...@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk redhat general I'm having difficulties installing Redhat 6.2 from NFS on an old laptop. I have a 3Com 3C589B Etherlink III PCMCIA Network adapter, and for what it's worth, the laptop is a /very/ old (early pentium?) T2100CT. I have tried the original pcmcia.img disk and

'Segmentation Fault' on laptop install
Have you tried using a windows based ftp server to host the install? Seems like that ought to work. Take a look at: http://www.jgaa.com/tftpd.htm for a freeware windows based ftp server. Martin wrote: Still wondering if anyone knows a way to install Linux on a laptop that doesn't have a floppy. It has a CD-ROM,

mmm more problems...laptop install
Chris Jones c...@cr-jay.ca alt solaris x86 I have a new laptop - it uses the SIS650 chipset. Very fast and reliable running WIN2K. I purchased another harddrive and I am trying to install Solaris (7, 8-01, 8-02). I purchased all three versions from Sun. Solaris 7 gets nowhere. Solaris 8 via CD1 scans the hardware and