I have owned a libretty 50ct - what you need is to have the base files on a seperate partition (such as your windows partition) and then you need everything to happen within a single disk. At 'some point' linux stops talking to the floppy disk through the bios and takes over with its own driver - at which time the LE-floppy is no longer recognized. Basically you need to get that single disk loaded into ram and then do everything from there...
To clarify - the base files on the seperate partition, that's the base.tar.gz file... (it took me an entire day to figure all this out, because I didn't check first like you :) I made a BUNCH of floppies to find them useless) debian 2.1's installation lets you get it done with just a single floppy, I don't believe more recent ones allow you to get far enough with just a single disk - naturally you could go about rolling your own boot floppy as well [I've never done this, would like to try though]. note: make sure you leave the suspend partition in its place (I believe it's described as an IBM something-or-other filesystem, it will be at the end of your disk). note2: always remember that so long as you have fat support in your kernel you can always mount your windows partition and pull files from there - so you can download things and then reboot to copy them over... this will allow you to recompile a kernel and pcmcia - as my linksys ethernet card didn't work properly with the version of pcmcia on the 2.1 I used. your mileage may vary. -Sincerely, Martin Norland
