Lukas Eppler wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there a boot floppy set which supports installation over a pcmcia > network card? > > If not, how is the simplest way to do it?
Not that I know of. I've recently installed Debian on 3 laptops, mostly by stumbling around in the dark until something worked. My latest and easiest attempt was: 1. Download Rescue, drivers, base disks, pcmcia-cs*.deb, pcmcia-modules*.deb and dhcpcd*.deb 2. Boot from rescue disk, install drivers disk and base disks. 3. Reboot when prompted 4. Just before running dselect for the first time, switch consoles; install pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules; the version number for pcmcia-modules should match the one for the kernel. I wasn't sure which one to get, so I downloaded them all and tried one after another until one worked. 5. Since Dartmouth now supports DHCP, I also installed dhcpcd so I wouldn't have to wait a week for the computer center to give me another IP address. If you are not using DHCP, then you will need to edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opts to include your IP address, etc. These should be picked up from the numbers you typed in during the install, but I switched to DHCP before I figured this all out. 6. Insert network card, which should now be recognized and started automatically. 7. Switch back to the first console and continue with dselect as usual. A couple of notes: I've had a little difficulty with the dhcpcd package; normally, it works just fine. Wait 10-15 seconds, and magically the system gets an IP address and sets all the routing tables by itself. Sometimes, though, after coming out of a suspend, it seems to lose the network card completely, until I manually do "ifconfig eth0 down" followed by "ifconfig eth0 up", which seems to cure whatever ails it. Also, now that I think about it, I've been installing from unstable/. I've needed to install the latest libc5 and libc6 before I could install pcmcia-cs from unstable/. I followed the libc5 to libc6 HOWTO slavishly here and had no problems. I'm typing this from memory, so I may have forgotten some details. Holler for more help if this doesn't work. -- Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
