Re: mandrake 10 status

On Saturday 09 October 2004 12:12 pm, bliq wrote:
> i wanted just to give you info how well the mandrake10 supports tc1000.
> since begining (i ve bought tc1000 in july2004) i was trying just this
> distro and it works fine for me.

Would you or anyone be able to tell me how to get Mandrake 10.1 actually
*installed* on my TC1000?

I have an external USB 2.0 CD-RW drive (a LiteOn LSC-24081MX, rev. 3M3K) that
works fine under Windows. It also seems to work on my desktop Linux machine
(running Debian with a 2.6.8 kernel).

However...

When I put the Mandrake 10.1 Community CD#1 into this drive and reboot the
Tablet PC, it starts Linux.

Unfortunately, after it starts I can't use the keyboard to interact with it.

Also it looks like the CD-ROM is no longer readable.

I have seen the same symptoms (no CD-ROM or keyboard after boot) with the
Debian install CD as well as the SuperRescue and SystemRescue CDs. This is
keeping me from being able to re-partition the drive.

I'm not running Mandrake on my desktop machine, and haven't found adequate
instructions for setting up a PXE boot in my environment (I have a Linksys
WAP acting as a DHCP server, though I guess I could turn that off, and
install DHCP (and maybe PXE and a TFTP server?)).

Or I suppose I could install Mandrake on my desktop machine on an unused
partition. I don't know how much space it takes, though.

Any suggestions as to which might be the easiest thing to do?

Thanks,

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