RE: Installation on Vaio Docking Notebook

["E.J. Melzer" <ejmelzer yahoo com>]

Hi,

I have an Vaio too with an i.link cd-rom. Red Hat Linux does not support
this and there are no drivers for this.

First the reaction I got from Sony:
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"Response (Adrian) - 05/01/2003 02:47 PM
Thank you for contacting us with your inquiry regarding the Sony PCG-R505DL
notebook. None of our Notebooks are compatible with the Linux operating
system and drivers for them are also not available. As such, we do not have
information as to when this compatibility issue will be resolved. I would
not recommend that you install Linux on the PCG-R505DL. Please feel free to
contact the Sony Style team for further assistance"


I am not technical at all but try to solve this problem with an hard drive
installation (I also have the official cd's). I got an answer from Red Hat
Support about this. They confirmed that it is not possible to install from
the Sony cd-rom and that you have to try another installation. Below is the
answer on how to do it. It turns out that I now have to find/buy a tool to
make ISO images. Good luck and let me know when you get it working, I am not
so far yet.
----------------------------------------------------

Service Request 235136 has been Updated

Incident Number: 235136
Customer Name:   EJ MELZER
Customer Number: 484802
Date Opened:     Apr 29, 2003 12:06
Date Changed:    May 01, 2003 23:10
Red Hat Tech:    Franklin

Your Red Hat product:

Red Hat Linux 9

Summary of your problem:

Installation fails - No driver found

Description of your problem:

My first Redhat installation. I am not very technical, but run an IT-
consulting firm so understand some technical issues. This is an private
installation to get familiar with Linux-products.

I want to install Redhat Linux 9 in an dual-boot environment on my Sony Vaio
PCG-R505 from my CD-DVD drive in the docking station.

Start:
Screen 1: Install .. in graphical mode [OK}
Screen 2: Language = English [OK]
Screen 3: Keyboard = us [OK]
Screen 4: Which type of media contains packages? I choose Local CD-ROM [OK]
Screen 5: Message "No driver found"
          I made disks with rawrite for the drvnet.img, drvblock.img and
pcmciadd.img. None of them work. I tried to boot from floppy. Same outcome.

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=> Than I got the answer from Sony and asked Red Hat for assistance with a
hard drive installation
because I did not know how to do this - how to copy the files and name them,
etc.
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Our latest response:
Re: installation

Dear Sir/Madam,

We apologize for the delay.

When you copy the 3 installation CD's in your harddrive did you convert them
to
ISO or you just rename them to .iso file, if this the case you need to have
a
CD tool that can crate ISO image out of the 3 installation CD e.g. Nero, and
others or you can download the ISO image in the URL below or in any other
mirror site (mostly like the link below is full).

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/

You can also try a network installation, please see the URL below how to do
it:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/s1-beg
ini
nstall-net.html

Should you have further inquiries, feel free to write back.

Best regards,
Franklin Abud




-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Fergyanto E
Gunawan
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 3:35
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Installation on Vaio Docking Notebook


Hi All,

I'm trying to install Red Hat on my Vaio notebook. The notebook have CDROM
and Floppy disk drive in the docked part. I also have 3 CDROM of Red Hat
8.0. I pretty sure the CDROM are OK since I have used them on my PC and
just fine.

In the installation on the notebook, first, I put the first CDROM and start
the notebook. The installation begin and I say my installation languange is
English and keyboard is Japanese. But I cannot go forward in the
Installation Method. There are 5 options there: Local CDROM, NFS Image,
FTP, HTTP, and Hard drive. So I choosed the first one: Local CDROM. I got
the message:


``The Red Hat Linux CD was not found in any of your CDROM drives. Please
insert the Red Hat Linux CD and press OK to retry"
[OK]  [Back]


Sounds like the CDROM was not found. I could boot from the CDROM but later
the Red Hat say that the CDROM was not found. How could this happen? Is
there any suggestion to solve the problem? Thank you for help


Fergi



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