Saturday, March 27, 2010

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Sony Vaio C1XD linux install??

 

Did you see these?

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3209

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2006-07/msg00226.html

http://featherlinux.berlios.de/booting.html

http://paulski.com/zpages.php?id=1612
>>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.co.uk> wrote:

From: Lee <leo1949uk@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Sony Vaio C1XD linux install??
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
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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