Re: tlug: Problem with Sony PCG-N505

["Scott M. Stone" <ss8913@example.com>]

"Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I ordered a Sony PCG-N505 note book only to discover that
> (unlike older 505s) the included floppy drive is a USB
> device, which spoils may plan to install Linux via Ethernet
> on the machine, because the kernel on the boot disk cannot
> find a floppy device to read the auxiliary disk containing
> PCMCIA support for the install (booting from the boot disk
> works, even with USB).
> 
> Does anybody have any creative ideas about what I can do?
> I guess there is no way to get Linux' half-baked USB support
> to work at boot time.
> 
> For those not knowing the machine, I should probably note
> that the thing has no builtin CD-ROM.  There is an external
> CD-ROM using some (it seems) Sony-specific PCMCIA-like card,
> but I never had any success getting that to work with Linux
> on an older 505.  (I am attempting to put RedHat 6.0 on the
> thing.)
> 
> Any suggestions?

FWIW, TurboLinux, at least the versions I worked on, will boot
*entirely* from the CDROM, pcmcia and all (no floppies needed).

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