Oleksiy V. Khilkevich schrieb:
Originally Bernd Eggink wrote:
I'm trying to install Crux on an IBM Thinkpad. This notebook has a USB CDROM and no floppy drive. The Crux CD-ROM boots, but the kernel apparently doesn't support USB and therefore can't see the CDROM drive afterwards. As far as i know, CRUX boot cd supports USB. I successfully use my packages from USN hdd during installation.
You're right - somehow. As a workaround, I created a harddisk partition hda4, copied the Crux CDROM to it (using Knoppix), and booted with root=/dev/hda4. I can see now that _after_ the system has come up, /dev/sr0 is present and can be mounted. But at the boot prompt /dev/sr0 doesn't work. Maybe this harware is a bit exotic. Of several other distros I tried, only SUSE and Debian were able to cope with the USB CDROM. Nevertheless, I'd put a somewhat more flexible installer on the wish list... Bernd