PCMCIA Installation

2001-10-10 Thread Harry Palmer
Is this possible? Isn't there a simple procedure to get to a debian archive using a pcmcia network card (or modem) and a couple of floppies, or is it necessary to mess around creating 16 floppies?! Thanks for any favourable (or otherwise) replies,, B.

Re: kernel & PCMCIA compilation

2001-11-13 Thread Harry Palmer
On 11 Nov 2001 22:59:16 -0500, Brian Flaherty wrote: >Harry Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I don't understand how running the make-kpkg utility can second-guess >> all the pcmcia configuration options - eg. apm support, cardbus >> support, etc..

PCMCIA Installation

2001-10-10 Thread Harry Palmer
Is this possible? Isn't there a simple procedure to get to a debian archive using a pcmcia network card (or modem) and a couple of floppies, or is it necessary to mess around creating 16 floppies?! Thanks for any favourable (or otherwise) replies,, B. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Unresolvable installation problem?

2001-11-04 Thread Harry Palmer
I have a (decent, 400MHz PII) laptop with no CDROM and an LS120 IDE floppy drive instead of a standard floppy (which boot disks pick up as hdd). Is that me stuffed as far as getting potato up and running? I tried a few things with the idepci boot set, but there doesn't seem to be a way of getting

Unresolvable installation problem?

2001-11-04 Thread Harry Palmer
I have a (decent, 400MHz PII) laptop with no CDROM and an LS120 IDE floppy drive instead of a standard floppy (which boot disks pick up as hdd). Is that me stuffed as far as getting potato up and running? I tried a few things with the idepci boot set, but there doesn't seem to be a way of getting

kernel & PCMCIA compilation

2001-11-11 Thread Harry Palmer
I'm a bit confused with how this works in Debian (in spite of the "we've greatly simplified this with Debian's kernel-package" etc etc). I can see how every custom kernel build will necessitate a pcmcia package rebuild immediately after it. I used to do all this manually with slackware. I don

Re: kernel & PCMCIA compilation

2001-11-13 Thread Harry Palmer
On 11 Nov 2001 22:59:16 -0500, Brian Flaherty wrote: >Harry Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I don't understand how running the make-kpkg utility can second-guess >> all the pcmcia configuration options - eg. apm support, cardbus >> support, etc... Could