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Re: Colgate install on WinBook FX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Mon Nov 11 20:36:11 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 20:32:05 -0500 (EST)
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
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Sorry for the incorrect post below.
I did install on a Gateway 2000 laptop once with the inability to
have both the floppy and cdrom at the same time, but I don't
remember how to do it now, and what is suggested below is probably
useless.
-sen
On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Sheldon E.
Newhouse wrote:
> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:23:46 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Colgate install on WinBook FX
>
> I had the same problem on a Gateway Laptop with 3.0.3. I was able to
> boot to DOS, mount the cdrom and read it using DOS. Then, you can change
> to the appropriate RedHat directories and install from the CDROM.
>
> HTH,
>
> -sen
>
> On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Neil Carlson wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 13:58:05 -0500
> > From: Neil Carlson <carlson@math.purdue.edu>
> > Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> > To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> > Subject: Colgate install on WinBook FX
> > Resent-Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:00:15 -0500
> > Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
> >
> > A colleague has a new Winbook FX laptop that he'd like to install
> > linux on. Unfortunately, the floppy and CDROM can't be plugged in
> > at the same time. Any relatively easy way of getting Colgate
> > installed on this machine?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Neil N. Carlson carlson@math.purdue.edu
> > Department of Mathematics 317-494-1920 (Fax: 4-0548)
> > Purdue University
> > http://www.math.purdue.edu/~carlson/
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
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> | Sheldon E. Newhouse | e-mail: sen1@math.msu.edu |
> | Mathematics Department | |
> | Michigan State University | telephone: 517-355-9684 |
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| Sheldon E. Newhouse | e-mail: sen1@math.msu.edu |
| Mathematics Department | |
| Michigan State University | telephone: 517-355-9684 |
| E. Lansing, MI 48824-1027 USA | FAX: 517-432-1562 |
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