Re: woody installation problem on old laptop
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 16:32, Tomas Pospisek's MailLists wrote:
>
> [old laptop, pcmcia ne2000 card, kernel dies]
>
> have you tried with both kernel-pcmcia-* and pcmcia-* packages? pcmcia-*
> worked better for me. Kernel-pcmcia-* just froze.
How do I try one and then the other? I just used the current boot
floppies for woody. As I indicated, I can avoid (or at least forestall)
the kernel problem if I lie to the install program about my ethernet
card's being a PCMCIA device. Is there more than one flavor of PCMCIA
package that I could choose with dselect after the minimal system is
installed? Perhaps I should just use the "=" in dselect to hold back
everything that has the string "pcmcia" in its package name when I run
dselect for the first time. Remember, the initial reboot worked OK. It
was only after running dselect that subsequent rebooting gave a kernel
failure.
There is perhaps one relevant subtlety that I didn't mention earlier,
though. When I booted from the hard drive for the first time after
installing MBR+lilo, the networking stuff spewed a few error messages
and failed, probably because the network script ran before the PCMCIA
script. I was able to kick start the network by just doing
"/etc/init.d/networking restart".
> ps: Cc-ing to you since you're not subscribed I guess...
No need. I subscribe.
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