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Subject:    Re: [linux-laptop] Newbie with dell CPi 266
From:       Ed Kapitein <ed () kapitein ! net>
Date:       2002-04-14 13:36:22
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Chris,

I would love to come over and help you some more, but i
live in the netherlands (europe) is that a problem ?
;-)

There are a few good words of advice:
if your harddisk is big enough ( i think it will be)
see if you can find a partition that is big enough to hold the instalation 
media. ( fdisk will tell you the size and the names of you partitions [hdaX, 
hdaY etc], df -k will tell you which ones are currently mounted )

boot form cdrom and start the rescue disk (does redhat
has a rescue disk ?)
otherwise just install as ussual a minimum ystem.

Then copy your cdrom to the harddisk:
( mount the cdrom on /cdrom and mount the big enough partition on
/floppy, then cd to /cdrom and do:
tar -cf - . | ( cd /floppy; tar -xvpf - )
This would copy the content of the cdrom to disk and
leave you free to boot from floppy with the source
media on your harddisk.

This way you should be able to do a fresh install.
(keep in mind not to overwrite the partition with the source media on it !)
if your home dir is on a partition of is own this might be a good place to 
keep your install media )

It might be handier to make some more partitions if you feel up to the task, 
but this will do the trick i think.

You can mix older RPM's with newer, but only as a last
resort...

rpm -evv pcmcia would remove the installed package
and a rpm -ivv --nodeps pcmcia.rpm in the directory
where the old rpm package is would install the old
pcmcia package.

Keep up the good work, and let us know what goes wrong
next :-)

Kind regards,
@








--- Chris Boden <cboden@thegeekgroup.org> wrote:
> > Comments interspersed..
> > ---------- Original Message
> ----------------------------------
> From: Ed Kapitein <ed@kapitein.net>
> Date:  Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:36:27 +0200
> > > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a dell latitiude c800 and have been able to
> get both sound and pcmcia 
> > to work.
> > pcmcia was a battle to get it working. I have an
> old suse 6.3 CD and what i 
> > did was deinstall the pcmcia package that came with
> my new distrib. (suse 7.3)
> > and then downgraded to 6.3 ( who had always worked
> before )
> > After the downgrade i installed the latest pcmcia
> package (3.1.33 ) and 
> > compiled it.
> > It worked great.
> > 
> > That's one of those things that I would need an
> experianced person to be here and help with. I don't
> understand enough to handle it on my own yet.
> > I have both SuSe and RedHat disks, can I interchange
> packages from them? I'd like to keep RedHat
> installed as my main OS.
> > > > For sound, i downloaded alsa sound, compiled it and
> it worked.
> > I don't think this is much help, your sound problem
> 'sounds' more serious :-)
> > It's just not seeing the sound card, and I don't
> know enough about IRQs and such to tweak it out.
> > > 
> > There are 2 kinds of pcmcia drivers nowadays. ( to
> keep things simple is  
> > guess)
> > one is a seperated pcmcia package and one is a
> kernel build in (yenta) driver.
> > 
> > in the /etc/rc.config.d/pcmcia.somthing file you
> can choose between the 
> > internal (yenta) or external driver.
> > This goes for my distrib, yours might be completely
> different.
> > I'll do some exploring....
> > > 
> > Lots of luck,
> > @
> > 
> > PS
> > power to the penguin !
> > > > > ok I have an idea...I'm sure it CAN be done (you can
> do anyting with Linux, it's the Chess game of OS's,
> I've learned that much) how do I do this?
> > I can only have a CD-ROM OR a Floppy installed at
> any time, and to change requires a reboot.
> > I have RedHat installed on the Hdd.
> > The BIOS won't (though it's supposed to!) let me
> boot from the CDROM.
> > How do I initiate a completely fresh install? I have
> a feeling that may solve my problems, to go through
> all the stuff and reprobe, etc. How do I do it?
> > Anyone who has a few hours free to tinker is welcome
> to come and play. I have a UET training exercise
> this evening after 8 or so, but my whole day is free
> until then.
> Call me at 385-2222 if you're interested.
> > > --
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