Yeah if your not in expert mode it tries to detect lots of things and gives
best guess for certain devices, you should try it this way and see if then
you get the option of bypassing the mouse prob. Also if you get really
bogged down you can install without X and get Linux itself running before
installing X.
Don't even attempt GPM on the "nipple" until you get some sort of
mouse working within X.
--steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Rigley [mailto:srigley at symantec.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 12:29 PM
To: Stephen_Reilly at exchange.dell.com
Cc: ilug at linux.ie; ilug at linux.ie
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Help!
OK, will try that...
I've no external cable for this machines floppy. I was
installing from a Dos
partition using the patch initrd60.gz with loadlin and
vmlinuz. No, I wasn't
installing in expert mode and at the time it hung, I had
forgotten about the
virtual terminals! DOH!
Steve
Stephen_Reilly at dell.com on 13/10/99 12:22:48
To: Stephen Rigley/Dublin/Ireland/SYMANTEC at SYMANTEC
cc: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Help!
Ok, you obviously have another machine running at the
moment, otherwise you
wouldn't still be mailing us . . . Stick the CD in that
machine, connect the
notebook, create a Linux boot disk. Boot the laptop from the
bootdisk and
try to install over the network.
Have you got a cable for externally connecting the floppy
drive ? As a
matter of interest how were you installing in the first
place if the CD
isn't bootable, swapping the drives ? Also were you
installing in expert
mode per chance ? And were there other virtual terminals
available at the
time it hung. I.e. Alt-F3 to check whether or not anything
was going on in
the background ?
--steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Rigley
[mailto:srigley at symantec.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 12:12 PM
To: Stephen_Reilly at exchange.dell.com
Cc: ilug at linux.ie; ilug at linux.ie
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Help!
Hmmm... the CDs don't seem to be bootable.....
yeah, I'll
use that mouse fix
next time I get to that stage, its getting to that
stage
that is the problem
though :-(
Stephen_Reilly at dell.com on 13/10/99 12:01:21
To: Stephen
Rigley/Dublin/Ireland/SYMANTEC at SYMANTEC
cc: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Help!
I wouldn't be hugely familiar with Compaq products
but there
are 4 Compaq
notebooks listed in the URL I sent:
Compaq LTE 5100
<http://www.schou.dk/linux/XF86Config>
Compaq LTE Lite 4/25
<http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~alexj/linux/LinuxCompaqLite425.html>
Compaq LTE Elite 4/40cx
<http://www.icubed.com/~hector29/linux.html>
Compaq LTE5000
<http://www.algonet.se/~rasan/linux.html>
I'm sure one of these would help out no end. As
for the
mouse, yeah you
might want to try plugging in an external and hope
it
doesn't simply confuse
the poor beast.
--steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Rigley
[mailto:srigley at symantec.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999
11:44 AM
To: Stephen_Reilly at exchange.dell.com
Cc: ilug at linux.ie; ilug at linux.ie
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Help!
Compaq LTE 5300, BIOS.....SystemSoft
Ver 2.0
Stephen_Reilly at dell.com on 13/10/99
11:30:07
To: Stephen
Rigley/Dublin/Ireland/SYMANTEC at SYMANTEC
cc: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Help!
What type of laptop is it you're trying
to install
on ? Also
what version
BIOS ?
--steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Rigley
[mailto:srigley at symantec.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October
13, 1999
11:01 AM
To: Breathnach,
Proinnsias(Dublin)
Cc: 'ILUG';
'Stephen_Reilly at dell.com';
'ILUG'
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Help!
OK, I've checked the BIOS and
its not
possible to
boot from
the CD or to disable
the mouse :-(
Options are running out....
ahhhhh....
"Breathnach,
Proinnsias(Dublin)"
<breatpro at MLE.CO.UK> on
13/10/99 10:55:44
To:
"'Stephen_Reilly at dell.com'"
<Stephen_Reilly at dell.com>,
Stephen
Rigley/Dublin/Ireland/SYMANTEC at SYMANTEC
cc: "'ILUG'" <ilug at linux.ie>
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Help!
I have the same problem with
RH 6.0 on a
compaq
laptop,
where it freezes on
mouse detection, even though
it works
perfectly on
RH 5.2
.... hmmmm
Anyhow, on the install it
happens
consistantly and
before
the chance to
create a boot (or rescue) disk
of any
sort ....
IIRC it also completely locks
out the
keyboard
....
You might want to try using an
external
mouse for
the
install (serial
*should* work - and disable
the internal
one in
the
BIOS)....
Booting from CD is also a good
idea
(even only if
it's
faster and more
reliable !) ...
Proinnsias
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
Stephen_Reilly at dell.com
[SMTP:Stephen_Reilly at dell.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October
13, 1999
10:39
> To:
srigley at symantec.com;
ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: RE: [ILUG]
Help!
>
> As long as you put in the
CD-Rom you
should be
able to
boot from it. If
> not
> check your BIOS boot
sequence and set
it to
CD-Rom first.
You don't need
> the
> floppy drive. Next time
though you
might wanna
make a
recovery diskette.
> There again you can also
take the CD
to another
machine
and create one
> there. Although if you get
really
stuck, you do
work in
Symantec you could
> always go to another machine
stick in
your
laptop
harddrive and Ghost
> something over it to start
again from
scratch .
. . oh
yeah, don't try and
> autodetect nipple mice.
>
> --steve
>
>
> -----Original
Message-----
> From: Stephen
Rigley
[mailto:srigley at symantec.com]
> Sent: Wednesday,
October
13, 1999
9:53 AM
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: [ILUG]
Help!
>
>
>
> Hi,
> I've tried
installing
RedHats Linux
(6.0) on
my laptop.
> I partitioned the
> HD with the swap and
the
native (getting
rid of
the dos
> partition). The install
> failed when it hung
trying to
detect my
mouse
(nipple type
> in centre of keys).
> So, now when I try
booting it
sayes "No
OS found"
!!!! I've
> tried using a Dos
> Boot Disk, but FDISK
sayes it
can find
no fixed
partitions.
> SO...... I'm stuck!
> BTW, installing a
different
version of
Linux is
out 'coz I
> have a swappable
> floppy and CDROM, so
I can't
install
from the
CDROM or HD
> ('coz I can't see the
> HD to copy the files
over!!!!!) Doh!
> Any help
appreciated!
> Please reply to my
e-mail
address (as
well as the
list) 'coz
> I haven't
> subscribed
> Cheers
> Steve
>
>
>
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