by Have spent most of the last two days trying to install Linux on a
Panasonic CF-25 laptop. The machine has no internal CD-ROM, so I
tried installing it from the following external CD-ROMs:
1) Nero CD-ROM on Adaptec 1460 PCMCIA SCSI adapter
2) BackPack CD-ROM on the parallel port
I tried RedHat 7.2, 7.1, 7.0 and 6.0, then Caldera 2.4, and finally
Mandrake 6.0.
None of these versions offered a driver for the SlimSCSI 1460, despite
my use of the drivers and pcmciadd floppies. I understand the correct
driver is a patched version of the AHA152X driver (which reportedly
autoinstalled fine in RH6.2), so I tried loading the AHA152X driver,
but it failed.
None of the Redhat versions, nor the Caldera, offered any support for
the BackPack CDROM, but Mandrake 6.0 did. So I started from DOS, and
ran the install program from the CD ON the BackPack CDROM. But when I
sent autoprobe to look for the drive, the Mandrake installer responded
"can't find BackPack CDROM anywhere on your system". Go figure!
Is there an off-the-shelf solution?
Achim
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