Installer prompts for device driver

[Karl Pearson]

On Tue, September 11, 2007 11:20 am, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 19:42 -0700, Tony Robbins wrote:
>> Thanks, Rick. Here's the website for the specs:
>> http://tinyurl.com/ywpz8q
>>
>> I'm attmpting to update the BIOS now, but not sure if that'll help.
>> I'll check the settings as well.
>
> Ah, it's an oldie!  Ok.
>
> Well, looking at those specs, the primary things I see are the size of
> the HDD (5GB is awfully damned small) and the maximum RAM (160MB is
> too small for a GUI-based install).  You may be out of luck for an F7
> install on that hardware.  The minimum specs for F7 are:
>
> Text install: 128MB and a 200MHz processor
> GUI install:  192MB and a 400MHz processor.
>
> Customized installs can occupy as little as 90MB, 275MB for an
> "everything" install, and 9GB for all packages.
>
> For a machine of that vintage and size, I'd recommend you install
> something like TinyLinux or one of the others from this list:
>
> 	http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Mini_Distributions/
>

Try DSL first. They've 'P.C.'ed their page, so it says, Demi-Sized Linux,
instead of Damn Small Linux, but it's the same distro. It's very nice and I
run it from a credit-card sized Live CD. Customize it from the Live CD, then
install to the laptop to keep your customizations. I put it on an old Compaq
laptop model 1075 and it worked better than the 'native' win98 install.

HTH,

Karl

> Sorry about that!
>
>>
>> Rick Stevens <rstevens at internap.com> wrote:
>>         On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 15:21 -0700, Tony Robbins wrote:
>>         > Hi all,
>>         >
>>         > I'm installing Fedora 7 on a Toshiba Tecra 750DVD directly
>>         from the
>>         > DVD (i.e. not Live). During install it stops with the
>>         message:
>>         >
>>         > No Driver found
>>         > Unable to find any devices of the type
>>         > needed for this installation type.
>>         > Would you like to manually select your
>>         > driver or use a driver disk?
>>         >
>>         > I've tried random drivers from the list, but none have
>>         worked so far.
>>         > Does anyone know where I can get a "driver disk" or the
>>         driver to put
>>         > on the disk?
>>
>>         Uhm, hmmm. There's two possibilities. One is that the
>>         installer isn't
>>         recognizing your DVD drive properly (probably not likely). The
>>         second
>>         is that your hard drive is a on a SATA controller it doesn't
>>         recognize
>>         (more probably).
>>
>>         Unfortunately, I can't find that model on Toshiba's website,
>>         so I don't
>>         know which chipset it uses (probably Intel). The first thing
>>         you should
>>         do is make sure you have the latest BIOS installed on the
>>         laptop.
>>         Second, try setting the SATA controller to "Legacy" mode in
>>         the BIOS and
>>         retry your installation. I can't guarantee if that'll fix it,
>>         but it's
>>         worth a try.
>>
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