On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 03:13:22PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > I recently had the same problem. It's pretty much non-trivial to get > the newer PCMCIA working on the boot-floppies (does it even work with > 2.0.x kernels). What I ended up doing is installing the base system > via floppy, then install potato pcmcia packages, 2.2 kernel, and > potato libc6. Major PITA. > > Do you think it's worth it either (a) trying to solve this for slink, > or (b) trying to get actual semi-functioning potato boot-floppies > together. I lean towards the latter... FWIIW, I still use an old (from hamm days? don't laugh!) floppy image, libc5 based, exchanged a few binaries: ifconfig, mount, lilo, can't remember what else,libc5 compiled of course put a custom 2.2 kernel on it ide cd+disk, scsi adaptec+ncr53c8xx, network 3c509+3c59x+lance+wd+smc-ultra+ne+rtl8139+tulip which covers pretty much all hardware we do have here, and still have 45k left on the floppy, amounting to ~90k on the rootdisk, assuming a 2:1 compression ratio. isapnp is already included, the libc is a full one, not a stripped down one. pcmcia cardmgr should definitely fit on it. 2.2 kernel and libc5 cooperate well. This floppy could be used for a floppyless VARIO Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
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