Hi all

Can anyone help?

I am having trouble installing redhat 7.2 on my libretto 100CT.

I tried a few other ways to install but had trouble with the floppy and not being able to use parallel cd rom.

I decided to do the install with the laptop hard drive in a desktop then put the laptop drive back in the libretto.
The drive boots fine in the desktop but as soon as I put it back in the laptop
The drive loads GRUB gets to the "OK booting the kernel" then the system reboots and keeps going in this loop.

I know about the issues where you can only do an initial boot with the floppy drive and not use the floppy again in the install because the system needs drivers to access the floppy.

I thought it was an issue with the hibernation portion of the drive but adding that didnt solve it.


Is it possible to get this to work?

Can I boot from a floppy and repair it so it works in the laptop or will redhat only work in the machine it was originally installed on? Is there any commands to reset the configuration to make it work in the laptop?

What is the best way to do this? I couldnt get ftp or nfs to work.

Thanks for your help

I tried several linux systems on my Libretto 100CT and experienced problems with Fedora and SuSE.

Without any problems was the installation of Slackware 10.2, which is running fine on my Libretto (166 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 80 GB Harddisk).

You cannot boot a floppy with a Linux on it, because (as far as I know) after loading the kernel no floppy controller is found and the boot process will stop with an error message.

You can try to copy to a litte FAT-partition on your harddisk (60 MB are enough, hda1 would be fine) zipslack (you can do this in another notebook or pc).

Then back in the libretto boot into DOS with a bootable DOS floppy. Change to the folder /linux (where zipslack is) and start linux.bat. Then a Slackware will boot and you can install with a pcmcia-cdrom your preferred Linux system.

If you are interested I have a compressed archive (libretto.tar.gz) with about 800 MB (it contains a full Slackware installation with KDE, XFCE4, Fluxbox, WindowLab, KOffice, Mozilla, Gimp, Dillo, Sylpheed, MPlayer, Xine, Win32-Codecs, the right xorg.conf for the TFT and more useful software). The Libretto is able to play DIVX4/MPEG4-files (.avi, .mkv, .ogm) in full-screen-mode with a vbitrate of 400 and an mp3-stream of 128 kBit.

The boot process takes 50 seconds into full graphical mode (WindowLab). I run a special MMX kernel 2.4.31 with the necessary drives compiled in the kernel. A pcmcia-ethernet-card works out of the box with Slackware. ACPI for Toshiba is full working and the brightness of the tft-screen can be changed by a little script (click a number between 1 and 8 in a special applet in WindowLab-menu). Because of the short time to boot (50 sec.) and shutdown (15 sec.) I disabled hibernation in Libretto BIOS.

You can take this tarball and install it to a partition (about 2,5 GB) out of running zipslack in 15 minutes.

So far my ideas about Linux and the Libretto ...

Fluxx.

Hi Fluxx
I am really interested in the compressed archive you have for the libretto, how can I get this from you? Can I download it from you?

Would it be easy to install the compressed archive on the system after transfering to the 2,5G partition?

Thanks loads

I could burn the libretto.tar.gz to 1 or 2 CDs. Give me your e-mail-adress and I will contact you.

The installation is no problem, because I would add zipslack or slax-frodo (both you can boot out of running DOS which you can boot with the pcmcia floppy and a DOS floppy).

It is a project of half an hour and a perfect Slackware system will be running on your Libretto ...

Fluxx.

I need this file too klaus.ruckerbauer@gmx.at

thanks

Problem solved i took Mandrake 9.2 unzipped the cds to a ext2 partition and made a hd cdrom usb floppy and now it works maybe i will upgrade to 2006 cause a normal installation of 2006 did not start the setup under dos