Unable to install Linux on Laptop with PCMCIA CD-Rom

[neogeek]

Hi,

I have a Sharp Actius PC-A150 laptop which I tried to install Linux. It comes with a PCMCIA cd-rom. When reinstalling from Windows, the laptop has no problem with booting from the CD-Rom without any floppy drive.

I am trying to install Linux on this machine. It will go into setup but the when it comes to hardware detection, it just cannot detect the PCMCIA cd-rom and cannot find any drivers for it.

I tried several distros but all have the same problem.

Does anyone has any advice or solution to this problem? Thanks in advance!

[harner]

Hi,

I have a Sharp Actius PC-A150 laptop which I tried to install Linux. It comes with a PCMCIA cd-rom. When reinstalling from Windows, the laptop has no problem with booting from the CD-Rom without any floppy drive.

I am trying to install Linux on this machine. It will go into setup but the when it comes to hardware detection, it just cannot detect the PCMCIA cd-rom and cannot find any drivers for it.

I tried several distros but all have the same problem.

Does anyone has any advice or solution to this problem? Thanks in advance!

What distros have you tried?

[neogeek]

What distros have you tried?

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.

I tried the following:
Ubuntu 4.10
Ubuntu 5.10
Ubuntu 6.10
Redhat 7.3
Redhat 9.0
SuSE 10.0
Gentoo 2005
Fedora Core 4.0

The laptop can read from the CD-Rom and boot the installation. It is just during the installation, that Linux cannot find the driver and mount the CD-Rom to continue the installation.