Re: [Manual] New installer options versus old boot options
How does this look for the PCMCIA option?
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Some laptop models produced by DELL are known to crash when PCMCIA device
detection tries to access some hardware addresses. If you experience such
a problem and you don't need PCMCIA support during the installation, you can
disable PCMCIA using the <userinput>hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false</userinput>
boot parameter. You can then configure PCMCIA after the installation is
completed and exclude the resource range causing the problems.
Alternatively you can try the following workaround:
- boot the installation system in expert mode, choose your language and
country, but stop before hardware detection
- enter the system shell (see <xref linkend="shell"/> for details)
- execute this command:
'echo exclude port 0x810-0x81f >>/etc/pcmcia/config.opts'
- now return to the main menu and continue with the installation process
You will also have to exclude the same address range in
'/target/etc/pcmcia/config.opts' before you reboot the computer to avoid
running into the same problem when you boot into your new Debian system.
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