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Re: D-I Beta 3 and /etc/defaults/pcmciautils



On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 05:42:34PM -0700, Sean Shapira wrote:
> Congratulations on releasing Etch Debian Installer Beta 3!  I used the 
> businesscard ISO today on an ancient laptop, and it all went pretty 
> smoothly!  One suggestion, though:

> When the installer uses a pcmcia device to perform an install, and it 
> installs a system that relies on pcmciautils, it it would be a big 
> advantage for it to also put the necessary hints into 
> /etc/defaults/pcmciautils so the installed system can access the pcmcia 
> device too.  In my case, simply creating the file with the single line:

>     PCIC=i82365

> was sufficient.

> To be fair, I didn't install the "laptop" task.  Would doing so also 
> have fixed this difficulty?

This is the wrong list for this question.  You want to contact the installer
team, on debian-boot@lists.debian.org.

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Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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