Quoting Graham Knap on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:13:29PM -0500: > > Why not acquire a $5. Debian CD and install from it? It will be handy > > to have in any case. > > Unfortunately, that wouldn't solve my problem. > > - There are no CDs available yet for woody. I have a cablemodem, so I > don't mind downloading the entire distribution once or twice to get it > installed. > > - I very, very highly doubt that the cs89x0_cs driver is included in the > Debian distribution. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I > haven't seen it...) > > There is also the fact that I can't boot from CD on that machine, but I > suppose that is rather unimportant... > > > When I load Debian 2.2 or 2.4 it asks about loading the drivers for > > the PCMCIA cards and I forget if both or just the 2.4 does the > > automagic thing and finds the right one. > > Yes, woody's floppy boot-up procedure does the same thing. It unpacks > 'drivers.tgz' but the cs89x0_cs driver does not seem to be included > there... so until I find out how to add the cs89x0_cs driver, I'm rather > out of luck. > > graham > > > There are netinst CDs for debian woody. These are about a 34mb download and they rely on a fast networking connection to finish the installation.
Would the woody netinst CDs do the job for you? They are at: http://www.debian.org/CD/ Just follow the link for the minimal install CD. I have not used the woody netinst images; but I have used markybob's netinst very effectively. -- Michael Perry | "Do or do not; there is no try" Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
