Installer prompts for device driver

Tue Sep 11 20:19:59 UTC 2007

Tremendous! Thanks, gents!

Karl Pearson <karlp at ourldsfamily.com> wrote:  
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 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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