[Sderby] Linux on a laptop.

[Graham Hamblin]

Hiyer Harry

Well doing it through the desktop will be the last resort.

The rest it still stops at

Partition check:
 hda:

The hard drive is IBM-DLGA-23080, ATA Disk Drive
The CDROM Toshiba CD-ROM XM-2402B, Atapi.

Ok I had this one to have a play just to see if it was worth having a 
laptop next time round cos I have an old box which needs replacing and 
if the answer is a load of problems then ir's No but I liked the idea.

I think this laptop is designed expressly for Windows and if so it's a 
bin job.

Regards
Graham

On Friday 27 Feb 2004 1:21 pm, Harry Sheppard wrote:
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> Hi Graham,
>
> Not a hundred percent sure what's causing this, but a similar problem
> I experienced (when taking an HDD out of a machine running
> Linux/Sparc64 into one running Linux/i386) was cured by zeroing out
> the first few meg of the hard drive before starting the install,
> hence ensuring that a totally fresh partition table is written during
> the HDD setup phase.
>
> Note that this command will do a very good job of losing all the
> information from your drive - use with care!!
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k count=20480
>
> Try re-running the install and see if that cures it.
>
> If not, you might want to try removing the drive from your laptop and
> performing the install on a desktop machine. The drive can be
> attached to a standard 40-pin IDE connector by using a 2.5" to 3.5"
> HDD adaptor which cost around a tenner and can be bought from here::
>
> http://www.mini-itx.com/store/default.asp?c=12#p81
>
> The adaptor also has a standard 4-pin molex on one end to supply
> power to the 2.5" drive.
>
> This method of installation also has the side effect of being a lot
> quicker than on your laptop, the installer now able to run on a
> (probably) quicker processor and CD-ROM.
>
> This was the method I used for a friend of mine who had one of those
> sub-compact notebooks that had no built-in CD-ROM or floppy and no
> provision for network boot. Once the base system has been installed,
> chuck the drive back into the laptop and give it a whirl :-)
>
> Hope that helps,
> - --Harry Sheppard
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-- 
Graham Hamblin
Red Hat Linux 9
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