Anyone have luck with Sony Vaio PCG C1X?

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Anyone have luck with Sony Vaio PCG C1X?
started by: astoria

Posted by astoria on May 02 2006,23:06

It's a very cute 9 inch sub laptop, without floppy drive or optical drive. I have a USB floppy drive and try to install DSL. It hangs after the kernel is loaded. Anyone have any luck?

BTW, it currently runs Debian with 2.6.12 kernel. I'm wondering if it is possible to do a dist-upgrade to DSL?

Thanks.

Posted by kerry on May 03 2006,00:22

More info please. Can your bios boot from a usb key? Do you have a usb key? Perhaps a usb cdrom drive?

No you can't dist-upgrade to a different distro.

Posted by astoria on May 04 2006,06:50

Quote (kerry @ May 02 2006,20:22)

More info please. Can your bios boot from a usb key? Do you have a usb key? Perhaps a usb cdrom drive?

No you can't dist-upgrade to a different distro.

The BIOS dosn't seem to be able to boot from a USB key

I don't have a USB cdrom drive either. So I can only install whatever boots off a floppy. Guess I am stuck with sid.

Posted by astoria on May 04 2006,06:58

I tried to boot failsafe and didn't succeed either. It stopped after "ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger."