yes on a CD is ovbiuosly more space. However, ghe root-iamge that gets loaded first is essentially the same.
Yes, you can edit the syslinux.cfg (however this is called isolinux in testing/unstable installs), but doing so it kindof tricky. You have to at least have rsync instlled and mkisofs. In general debian should support pcmcia-stuff out-of-the-box. At elast that is my experience installing debian on laptops now for at least 6-7 years now. On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, John Heim wrote: > I just want to know if I'm on the right track here. I'm trying to install > debian on my laptop. I made some boot floppies but there doesn't seem to be > any way to get them to recognize my pcmcia network card. Or is there? > > So assuming there isn't, I'm guessng I have to install from a CD. I don't > have a CD burner yet although I ordered one last Friday. Should arrive > today or tomorrow. So I haven't tried to install from a CD yet. But I'm > guessing the CD image would include pcmcia support because they have more > room on a CD than a diskette. Is that right? > > And then I would have to enter a boot parameter like > "console=ttyS0,115200n8" to get a serial console because I'm not going to > be able to edit the syslinux.cfg on the CD. Right? > > Finally, I have an Oralux CD that I can boot from. I've heard rumors that > you can install debian via an Oralux CD but I can't find and docs on that. > Can that be done? > > > > > -- > John G. Heim > University of Wisconsin - Division of Information Technology (DoIT) > 1210 West Dayton St, #4297, Phone: 2-9887 > > To boldly code what no one has coded before. > > > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer science www: http://www.nl.linux.org/~andor UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn,voip: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen Storm 2002-2004 vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003
