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#1 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 08:40 AM

I'm trying to install Mandrake linux on a Sony Laptop, which does not
have a removable media drive. So after I put the laptop on a docking
station, put the cd in, turn the laptop on, the screens reads "USB
device detected" and then "no cd-rom found". Anyone knows how I should
go about this? Thanks in advance.

Joe

#2 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 08:40 AM

GIJoe <biold0@bayou.uh.edu> wrote:
> I'm trying to install Mandrake linux on a Sony Laptop, which does not
> have a removable media drive.

The easiest solution is to take the disk out and put it in a machine
that does. EIther install on that machine, or just copy the cd to the
disk, and install from it later (be sure to make a separate temporary
partition to hold the cd image or contents).

Or you can use a pcmcia card to do a (minimal) network install, and
then move on to using the cd via a pcmcia cdrom. Or just at that
stage put the cdrom on another machine and mount it via nfs.

Heck - an nfs or other net install with a pcmcia NIC might be the way
I'd do it. What does linux-laptops say?

Peter

#3 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 08:41 AM

On 10/04/05 18:47, GIJoe wrote:
> I'm trying to install Mandrake linux on a Sony Laptop, which does not
> have a removable media drive. So after I put the laptop on a docking
> station, put the cd in, turn the laptop on, the screens reads "USB
> device detected" and then "no cd-rom found". Anyone knows how I should
> go about this? Thanks in advance.
>
> Joe
>

I did several slackware installations via network mounting the cdrom via
nfs. It is not a standard setup and required some manual work but always
worked OK.

Ciao
Giovanni
--
A computer is like an air conditioner,
it stops working when you open Windows.
Registered Linux user #337974 <http://counter.li.org/>

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