Hello, Here's the problem: i want to use my old laptop (486DX, 8Mb RAM, 800 Mb HDD, Fujitsu pcmcia netcard) as X-terminal. First, I tried to make a boot floppy with 2.4.18 kernel, pcmcia support, network card driver and nfsroot compiled directly in kernel. But on booting it doesn't up my network card and writes:"kernel panic. Unable to find root partition. Append correct root=". I tried to do the same thing with copying this kernel to hard drive and setting lilo (from the second partition with RedHat base system) properly as it written in kernel docs. The same effect. then I tried to install minimal Debian woody system in order to clean it up and chroot to nfs root after network starts. After installing kernel and driver modules I setup networking, everything goes ok but at the last point the installer writes that my network is configured but cannot be up untill reboot. I reboot the system, do the same job leaving previous installation files... the same thing. I go further and try to install base system from NFS server... installer asks me to setup networking... and the same thing "network is configure but your card will be started after reboot". Just the loop. I looked at the 3rd console: it writes ...modprobe fmvj18x_cs (right module)...ok ./network start eth0 and that's all. Under RedHat 2.4.18 kernel works fine with this network card. Could anyone help me with this problem or just to tell me how to make my old laptop work as X-terminal?
-- Best regards, Eduard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
