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Article #23588Suse 6.0 installation on laptop : wired problem...
From: Olivier M.
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:00
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Good evening,
I have a laptop with :
- a dos harddisk with 30MB free
- a suse linux 5.3 hardisk with 100MB free
- one disk drive (bootable) _OR_ a cd-rom drive (not bootable),
it is not possible to change the drive when the pc is powered
- the cd-rom works under linux
And I'd like to upgrade my system to Suse 6.0. How should I do ?
1. if I run yast from the 5.3 and ask upgrade, it tells me I
have to boot from the boot disk to continue installation
2. booting from cd-rom doesn't work (bios too old I guess....)
3. if I boot from the disk, I can't access the cdrom drive
4. I tried some things with kernel images and loadlin on
the dos harddrive, but without succes
5. I tried to create a little dos partition and to copy the
bootdisk on it with dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/hda6, but I
can't make lilo boot on it :(
Well, if anybody have an Idea, please tell me :) When I installed
the 5.3, I used the network and it took the whole night : if only
I could use the cdroms for that...
Thanks for any hint,
Olivier
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4b73,676fb5fc4e3998ce,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf4b73,public From: XS*MOA@technologist.com (Olivier M.) Subject: Suse 6.0 installation on laptop : wired problem... Date: 1999/03/23 Message-ID: <slrn7ffd6t.pie.XS*MOA@tardis-a3.ee.ethz.ch> X-Deja-AN: 458004221 X-Trace: 23 Mar 1999 16:35:58 +0100, tardis-a3.ee.ethz.ch Organization: ETH Zurich Newsgroups: ch.comp.os.linux