Bibek Sahu wrote: > I recently wiped my partition table (accidentally... ugh... don't ask) and > figured now might be a good time to do a fresh install of Debian onto an > otherwise Linux-happy laptop (IBM Thinkpad A21p). > > Since I want to install Sarge directly, it was suggested to me that I > write to debian-boot and ask about it. I found > http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ and was going to just follow the > directions for the "testing" net-boot CD, but figured I'd check here > first. > > So... above and beyond creating said net-boot CD, is there anything I need > to know? The networking for the laptop is via. a PCMCIA card (DLink > something; ne-2000 compatible, if I remember right). debian-installer is not 100% there for pcmcia, you will need to manually install pcmcia-cs and the pcmcia-modules for your kernel from the CD after the install. -- see shy jo
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