Did you see these?
http://www.tldp.
http://www.knoppix.
http://linux.
http://featherlinux
http://paulski.
>>The one above is for SBM, which has support for those CD drives, too.
Also, if you can do a frugal install to its hard drive in another computer with a Linux Live CD it might work.
I hope some of these might help you out...
Joan in Reno
--- On Sat, 3/27/10, Lee <leo1949uk@yahoo.
From: Lee <leo1949uk@yahoo.
Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Sony Vaio C1XD linux install??
To: LINUX_Newbies@
Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 7:15 PM
--- In LINUX_Newbies@ yahoogroups. com, Scott <scottro@... > wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 03:12:23PM -0000, Lee wrote:
> >
> >
> > I have a Sony Vaio 9" netbook which had win 95 installed so I formatted
> > the hard drive to install XP!! but now I find I can`t use the CD drive because I also wiped the CD driver :-/
> >
>
> Does the BIOS see the CD drive? If so, you should, in theory, at least,
> be able to use a CD. The driver should be Windows specific.
Not unless a driver is installed..
> I don't know if something from the Win95 error can use a USB stick, but
> that's another possibility. However, you mention a USB port. If you
> have a USB thumb drive, many distributions can be installed (or used
> with a Live version) from a thumb drive, such as Puppy.
Without an operating system, the usb port only sees the external
floppy drive -have tried memory sticks and iomega zip drive, without
any joy...
Regards.
Lee.
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