Help in installing Fedora 8

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I hope someone can give some ideas.

 

I have a Toshiba Portégé 3500 laptop.  (P3 1.3GHz, 1 GB of RAM) It is a Tablet PC and has been running XP Pro Tablet Ed.

 

I have been trying to install Fedora for many months already and am not giving up… I have successfully installed Fedora 8 on many other PCs and laptops, but this one is a real challenge to me.

 

It is a non-standard PC: no built-in CD-ROM, it uses a proprietary PCMCIA model from Targus made for this model, and special drivers are needed to run it, DOS drivers do exist, but no Linux drivers. I only use it to re-install Windows XP as the Toshiba recovery CDs need it. I do not care for the Tablet PC specific functions, as I use it as a standard laptop.

 

I also have a standard external USB 2.0 CD/DVD-RW, however it will not boot from this – but I do have an external FDD and it will boot from this.

 

If I try to boot the Fedora DVD, using the PCMCIA CD-ROM it will get started, but then Anaconda will not recognize the device, and stops  – and no Linux drivers exists.

 

So I figure I could use the USB CD/DVD-ROM, as I think this will be a valid device for Anaconda.

 

I need specific instructions to create floppies to get a successful Fedora 8 installation.

 

Can anyone help ?

 

Thank you.

 

Denis

 

 

 

 


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