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> I am planning to install RedHat Linux 3.0.3 on my TP760CD from a
> CD. Before I go and buy the CD, has anybody had any luck with this on
> their 760CD. Is it as easy to install on the 760 as on a desktop or am
> I asking for trouble by trying to install from the CD.
760 CD-ROM doesn't work (lots of error) under linux 1.2.13.
What you can do (and what I did) is to boot up the linux 1.3.57 instead.
Boot into DOS mode instead of Windows 95.
1. shrink the hard drive partition (run cdrom: \dosutils\fips.exe)
2. run cdrom: \redhat, answer all the questions but quit at the last step
(don't let redhat boot up linux).
3. This \redhat program writes a file at "C:\RH303.PAR". Edit that file
and change the two "1213" into "1357". It should look like this:
e:\images\1357\bare\kern0000.img
root=1600
ramdisk=256,no
KERNELNUM=0000
KERNELPATH=/images/1357/bare/
Actually you can skip the step 2 and create such a file yourself.
(e: is the CDROM drive under DOS)
4. Now run redhat (again) and let redhat use the RH303.PAR already in C:\
to boot linux.
5. The rest is the same as normal redhat linux installation.
Note that RedHat installation will install and run the 1.2.13 version of
PCMCIA cardmgr, which won't work under 1.3.57.
You have to recompile the PCMCIA modules for 1.3.57.
Or, if you don't care about the CD-ROM support any more,
you can copy the 1.2.13 linux image from the 2nd CD and use that instead.
--ygz