Re: [Manual] New installer options versus old boot options
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 18:36 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> 2) hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false
> Is this i386 only?
No.
> When should this option be used?
When you don't want d-i to try to start PCMCIA, because it crashes
your computer. This mostly happens when the resource ranges are
wrong. It will probably become a medium priority question as well
after the string freeze.
> Is the procedure described in:
> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s01.html#id2453819
> still valid?
You need to put the parameters in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts (not
/target) before running the hardware detection step. Then you need to
put them in /target as well, after the base installation. There is no
"PCMCIA configuration part" either, it is part of the hardware
detection.
If you don't need PCMCIA for installing, you can disable it during the
installation and then install pcmcia-cs and modify
/etc/pcmcia/config.opts afterwards. Hmm... pcmcia-cs is also part of
the laptop task which I'm not sure is such a good idea.
--
Pelle
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