Suse 6.0 installation on laptop : wired problem...

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3 total messages Started by Olivier M. Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:00

#23588

Author: Olivier M.
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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Re: Suse 6.0 installation on laptop : wired problem...

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Author: Daniel Werner
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:00

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XS*MOA@technologist.com (Olivier M.) meinte zum Thema
 	Suse 6.0 installation on laptop : wired problem...:
> 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 ?

If the cd-rom also works in DOS, then insert the first CD, 
cd to the CD and run setup.exe

HTH
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Daniel Werner
Rickenbach b. Schwyz (CH)           http://srml.discordia.ch/

Re: Suse 6.0 installation on laptop : wired problem...

#23603

Author: Olivier M.
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 00:00

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<srml@schnuddel.discordia.ch> ecrivait/schrieb/wrote:
>If the cd-rom also works in DOS, then insert the first CD, 
>cd to the CD and run setup.exe

well, I never used a cdrom under msdos 6, and have no idea
how... but I'll try to find something :)

oli

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