gjensen
07-23-2002, 07:43 AM
Greetings!
Search on the Internet reveals that many users managed to get SuSE 7.3 running on the IBM Thinkpad 560E (which I just got from an auction for a song) - how on earth did you get it working?
The 560E doesn't have a built-in CD ROM, so the previous owner invested in a Freecom Parallel CD (Serial K646...). According to the FAQ's I've read so far, SuSE comes with PARIDE, and if I'm not mistaken this does support Freecom drives.
Head-scratching fact is: the boot disk doesn't seem to contain that driver, neither the module disk.
I have drivers for DOS and Windows (with Windows 98 having been already installed), so I can actually see and read the disks both from the command-prompt when booting into DOS as well as from within Windows.
I have thus created the disk set (boot, root, module1, module 2) as suggested by the INSTALL program on the first CD, but still no luck: Linux is actually loaded into RAM disk, the install program then seems to continue but can't mount the CD-ROM.
I have since tried to install other distributions as well (Mandrake, Debian, Knoppix still flying about on my table - I can't boot from a parallel port CD ;-)) but to no avail.
How can I teach SuSE Linux 7.3. about my parallel port CD-ROM from Freecom (one old bugger, an 8speed drive)?
Or is this really one piece of machinery I'd have to scrap completely, so as to purchase those rather expensive PCMCIA port CD-ROM drives?
Hints, links, tips etc. would be appreciated. This problem seems to be running through all distributions that come on a CD - thus the question: has perhaps someone created a boot disk / disk image that includes a parallel port CD-ROM driver?
I'm already playing for two days now, and my coffee consumption just gets way out of hand on this... :-)
Gerard
Search on the Internet reveals that many users managed to get SuSE 7.3 running on the IBM Thinkpad 560E (which I just got from an auction for a song) - how on earth did you get it working?
The 560E doesn't have a built-in CD ROM, so the previous owner invested in a Freecom Parallel CD (Serial K646...). According to the FAQ's I've read so far, SuSE comes with PARIDE, and if I'm not mistaken this does support Freecom drives.
Head-scratching fact is: the boot disk doesn't seem to contain that driver, neither the module disk.
I have drivers for DOS and Windows (with Windows 98 having been already installed), so I can actually see and read the disks both from the command-prompt when booting into DOS as well as from within Windows.
I have thus created the disk set (boot, root, module1, module 2) as suggested by the INSTALL program on the first CD, but still no luck: Linux is actually loaded into RAM disk, the install program then seems to continue but can't mount the CD-ROM.
I have since tried to install other distributions as well (Mandrake, Debian, Knoppix still flying about on my table - I can't boot from a parallel port CD ;-)) but to no avail.
How can I teach SuSE Linux 7.3. about my parallel port CD-ROM from Freecom (one old bugger, an 8speed drive)?
Or is this really one piece of machinery I'd have to scrap completely, so as to purchase those rather expensive PCMCIA port CD-ROM drives?
Hints, links, tips etc. would be appreciated. This problem seems to be running through all distributions that come on a CD - thus the question: has perhaps someone created a boot disk / disk image that includes a parallel port CD-ROM driver?
I'm already playing for two days now, and my coffee consumption just gets way out of hand on this... :-)
Gerard