Subject: Re: W98 driver ATI rage mobility
From: Jim Gribbin (jewelrysupplier@gci.net)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2003 - 14:41:18 AKST
I would think that as long as pcmcia was compiled into the kernel and
not loaded in as modules, it should work. I am speaking of still doing
the initial boot from the installed hard drive and not trying to get the
bios to load the system from the pcmcia drive.
Jim Gribbin
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 10:17, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 14:39, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> >
> > Would a pcmcia hard drive be an acceptable option?
> >
> > Jim Gribbin
> >
> > On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 08:21, Greg Madden wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 13:53, Greg Madden wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I am doing my google search but so far I haven't found a W98 driver for
> > > > a ATI Rage P/M Mobility card. Its for my Sony but Sony doesn't support
> > > > anything but XP. ATI doesn't have drivers for this,they say the vendors
> > > > finalize the drivers. I would try a driver from other vendors if
> > > > available.
> > > > TIA
> > >
> > > It only took four days of pain & suffering but I have W98 running on my
> > > Sony FXA 63 laptop. The video driver was the key and I eventually found
> > > one that worked on Fugitsu-Siemens site.
> > >
> > > http://support.fujitsu-siemens.de/drivercd/Start_GB_Notebook.htm
> > >
> > > BTW, Sony only supports XP and their support site is hard to use, nah
> > > mostly useless. My Sony works well with Debian but lack of support and
> > > some other minor hardware configuration issues don't make them useful
> > > for my work.The hard drive is buried under the keyboard. A swap-able
> > > hard drive would of been preferable to setting up a multi boot system,
> > > esp when windows is involved.
>
> Good suggestion, They would have to be bootable. There are some 5gb
> (IBM,Toshiba) pcmcia drives available, I am not sure if Linux boots with
> these.
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