Further to my earlier post...
I forgot to mention - one obvious thing to ask would be 'was the card
recognised by the installation CD or when usign genkernel?'
The answer is - I don't know, because....
This notebook has no CD-Rom, and the only way to connect one would be
via PCMCIA or USB, and I have found no way to boot from either.
This appears to stop me from using genkernel.
Here are the details for anyone that thinks they might be able to offer
some suggestions:
The Libretto is a notoriously tricky machine to install on because it has
no bootable removable media other than a floppy, and even that is PCMCIA
based, so any install process where the bootrap expects to be able to
read the boot media tends to fail. For instance, most floppy based installs
require a second modules floppy be inserted before a PCMCIA device like a
CDROM or the floppy drive can be accessed - catch 22.
I have often thought that the floppy should be readable through BIOS routines
if it can be booted from, but if so I suppose it would have been done..
In the end I managed a network install using PLIP, and all subsequent
linux installs (SuSE and now gentoo) have been achieved using the previous
Linux system as a springboard.
Consequently I have followed the alternate install method which involves
initializing the gentoo partitions from my current linux and then chrooting
into it - I was actually quite surprised that running on a 2.4 kernel and
/proc directory on a 2.6 filesystem worked...
The stage files were copied from the install CD using the network which was
still working on my SuSE host system.
Finally, the problem with genkernel is that the instructions in the
handbook assume you have booted from the install CD. Specifically, it
says to copy the installation CD kernel config using
zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-2.6
and that obviously isn't going to work when I am installing using
a foreign (SuSE 2.4) kernel.
I could probably get around this by just booting the CD somewhere else and
copying the config file, but at the time the manual config looked like an
easier option, and I wanted to minimum the kernel size as this old machine
has a maximum memory expansion of 64M.
Regards,
DigbyT
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http://www.digbyt.com
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