3lade Posted June 11, 2003 Report Share Posted June 11, 2003 I have a Sony Vaio SR31K laptop and because work is quiet and the phone isnt ringing like a fire alarm I decided to give it a try installing 9.1. How the hell do I go about this, the laptop only has a pc-card cdrom, which while it will boot from it gets cut off by the install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted June 11, 2003 Report Share Posted June 11, 2003 You could use a PCMCIA NIC and do a network install! Haven't done one in ages but the easiest was using an NFS mount if I remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted June 11, 2003 Report Share Posted June 11, 2003 I've tried nearly everything with my Sony Vaio to get the 9.1 install to go from the cdrom with no luck. The only way I could get 9.1 installed is with a hard drive install and then I had additional problems with 9.1 when the install was done. Odd thing is that 9.0 installed fine. Wound up going back to 9.0 rather than try to fix 9.1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tons Posted June 23, 2003 Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 I've tried nearly everything with my Sony Vaio to get the 9.1 install to go from the cdrom with no luck. The only way I could get 9.1 installed is with a hard drive install and then I had additional problems with 9.1 when the install was done. Odd thing is that 9.0 installed fine. Wound up going back to 9.0 rather than try to fix 9.1. No problems here getting 9.1 working on my Sony Vaio. I only had a small problem with the sounddrivers during the first boot. ALSA and Sound made the system halt. Rebooted again using the interactive boot sequence, skipped all the sound things, Got into KDE, upgraded 9.1 with the latest patches and now it's running fine. The only thing is that a shutdown ends with a black screen and I have to push the button to turn the notebook off. This didn't happen with 9.0. Reboot still doesn't work, but who needs this? Ton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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