I ran into all of those fun little issues when trying to install linux
on the TC1000. What I ended up having to do was to have two sets of
installation media and two USB external CD drives (one was Lite-On and
the other Iomega). The reason was that after the initial boot on the
first drive, the USB driver loading caused the drive to no longer be
recognized. I then plugged the second drive in with the duplicate copy
of the media and things proceeded perfectly. This worked with both
SuSE 9.1 and Mandrake 10.1.
One quick tip. Since the microphone jack is close to the speakers (and
the default volume on the speakers will be set at maximum) plug a set
of headphones into the microphone jack while installing. That is
correct. headphones into the microphone jack. Otherwise you will have
such severe feedback that you will want to claw your face off. Adjust
the input and output volumes accordingly once the system is set up.
As for all of the device drivers, see if you can find some digests of
previous emails. There are many out there to aid with installing a lot
of the functionality that is missing with a default installations.
Let me know if this helps.
On May 8, 2005, at 8:34 PM, Ned Konz wrote:
> On Sunday 08 May 2005 4:40 pm, Jonathan Higginbottom wrote:
>> I have downloaded Gentoo Linux but found that If I use a CDROM in
>> the docking station or use the USB memory stick to boot Gentoo
>> then the installation fails - it is unable to locate the installation
>> media
>> having successfully started the installation process.
>> I have tried this with Knoppix v3.8.1 and Suse DVD v9.1 and the
>> same thing happens.
>>
>> My current thoughts are to use the PXE boot from LAN with my other
>> PC being the DHCP and TFTP server that would transfer the Gentoo
>> media to the TC1000 that will not need the use of docking station
>> cdrom
>> or usb memory stick.
>>
>> *AM I MAKING A MOUNTAIN OUT OF A MOLEHILL ?
>> Have I missed something simple ?
>
> I have found the same thing, with both a Lite-On external DVD-ROM
> drive and
> another external CD-ROM drive, as well as with USB memory sticks.
>
> However, there *are* some installers that do work, including
> Mandrake's.
>
> I have yet to figure out what the problem is.
>
> --
> Ned Konz
> http://bike-nomad.com
>
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