Howto Mandriva 2005 or Mandrake 10.1 network install

animalww · 08-21-2005, 12:14 AM

I have a thinnote, that is no longer supported. it is a KDS thinnote 3000 series. No built in floppy or cdrom, but it has everything else built in. No floppy available, but I do have a USB cdrom. During install Mandrake loses the cdrom. Mandriva is on DVD and therefore cannot be tried. I would like to have mandriva loaded on this puter. How can i do the install and is it possible to make the USB cdrom work? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Rodney

dexter11 · 08-22-2005, 08:56 AM

I don't really get it. There are CD ISOs from 2005 too. Look at here. If you want to do a network install then download the (not so) mini ISO images. If you don't have broadband connection then either ask one of your friends or buy CDs.

animalww · 08-22-2005, 07:18 PM

Thanks for the link, I will look into that and see if I can get that. I have a broadband and have the cdrom iso's but the problem I have is that it always loses the usb cdrom that I am trying to load it from. I would need to know how to keep it working. That is why I was interested in the network install. I have done that with SUSE once before and it was super easy.

I have since tried loading linux onto the hard drive and then swapping it into the laptop, but I don't know how to reset the Xserver for mandriva. What would I run from the command prompt to do that? I used to type xconfig with an old red hat, would that still work?

animalww · 08-22-2005, 07:22 PM

again, thanks for the link, but I did find that page that same night. it does not have what I was looking for. I needed somthing to just get the network install up and going, or hopefully a way of keeping the usb cdrom going.

animalww · 08-22-2005, 08:01 PM

I found out about XFdrake, and ran it. The laptop specs say a Lynx3DM with 8MB of Vram. I chose every Lynx chipset in the list and I get an error stating that
Failed to load module "Synaptics" (Module does not exist,0)
Failed to load module "user/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a" (once only module,0)

Try to change some parameters.

I am at a loss. I am not back to trying to reinstall. (even though I would like to fix it so I would learn something else about it. I just don't have that much time)