Bug#134970: boot-floppies: unable to install via pcmcia cdrom drive

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#include <hallo.h>
Philip Blundell wrote on Sat Mar 02, 2002 um 11:58:13PM:
> severity 134970 normal
> tags 134970 + unreproducible
> thanks
> 
> >The system is not recognizing my PCMCIA hub and CDROM.  This appears
> >to be due to the fact that /lib/modules/<kernel> is basicly empty on
> >these CDROMs.
> 
> It sounds like the CD you are using was made with some kind of bad build
> of the boot-floppies.  Here at debian-boot we do not produce CD images
> so there isn't much we can do about this.
> 
> Other people clearly are using PCMCIA devices to install their systems

OTOH, this situation can happen. If he does not have a normal floppy
driver or CD-ROM drive, and the BIOS is emulating El-Torito over PCMCIA,
then there is a problem since we do not put any pcmcia stuff on the
rootdisk. I suggest to create a small partition somewhere, format with
vfat or ext2 and copy the drivers.tgz file on this filesystem. Keep the
directory structure! Make sure you get the same drivers.tgz file as the
flavor you are using.

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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