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Hi guys, need some help. I have a spare laptop lying around, thought I'd put SuSe on it! Great! Problem: It's an old Acer Travelmate 313T i.e. a Pentium 1. ...
  1. 10-18-2006 #1
    TheAlteredState
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    SuSe 10.1 Beta 8 Boot Disk

    Hi guys,

    need some help.

    I have a spare laptop lying around, thought I'd put SuSe on it! Great!
    Problem:
    It's an old Acer Travelmate 313T i.e. a Pentium 1.
    The thing is that it has a PCMCIA CD-Rom and it can't boot from it.
    Now I got a bootable stiffy with it, which get's me into dos with CD-ROM support.

    So, I need help doing one of 2 things:

    1. Install SuSe from DOS

    OR

    2. Make a boot disk for SuSe and hopefully it will have the drivers for my cdrom on there to work, else I need to get the drivers on there too somehow.


    I saw there is a mkbootdisk on the SuSe cd, but it needs to be run from a linux box, so this doesn't help much.

    Help?





    I found SuSe 9.1, and I'll even install that, on it I found loadlin... although I'm not quite sure how to use it.

    All I got is:
    loadlin name_of_kernel initrd=name_of_initrd distribution_specific_options

    from here: http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/wi...l.html#loadlin

    but it didn't help me much? still dunno what I'm doing!
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    There are some bare bones distros which fit on a single floppy, these may help
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    Ok....

    Where do I get one? And will in then see my cdrom?
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    a list, first page in google for floppy distro

    http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/

    Some extra googling revealed TOMSRTBT Linux with PCMCIA support
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