FC2 install blues

[justafish]

I'm trying to install FC2 on a toshiba portege 3440CT. Here's some of the various things I've tried:


Putting the boot images on the hard drive and booting off them using grub, I then:

Plugged in a usb cdrom drive, only that made the whole install process hang
http, ftp and nfs install. These all failed, I think it's due to the installer not being able to correctly connect to my dhcp server and get a lease. I know it's not a problem with my network since I can boot from LAN at the initial laptop boot thingy. I tried putting a static ip in, but it doesn't seem to want to connect to my http/ftp server or nfs share. oddly it adds an extra "/" into the url of the http location.

Bought a pcmcia cdrom drive which my laptop is able to boot off (it can't boot from the usb one). It booted off the cd fine, except the installer doesn't have any drivers for the cd drive so it basically leaves me at the same point before. argh. I then tried putting the driver on a floppy and giving it the driver via my usb floppy drive...oops! usb storage driver strikes again and freezes the whole thing up!



So, I think that probably leaves me with one option- a pxe install. But I'd rather not do it if I don't have to .

So, any suggestions anyone? :p

[Jman]

Could you explain the first one? Sounds like you already had grub, and for the upgrade you are trying to use image already on the hard drive. In that case check out this howto (http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~colohan/docs/fedora_upgrade.html) about using an existing grub to boot the installer.

[carbo18]

This might help although it applies to Fedora Core 1.

http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/~schofield/portege.html

[justafish]

Sorry Jman, forgot to mention I already have FC1 on there, so booting the installer is no problem. It just doesn't seem to be connecting to my network properly and that adding the "/" into the url is hindering me too.

carbo18, thanks, I can use google too, yay me ;)