Re: How to re-install from PCMCIA-SCSI-CDROM?

[Stephen Hardman <hardguy@it.net.au>]

> > you could always do a floppy install for the base stuff.
> > 
> >  and then use that base install to get the cdrom working, when you get the
> > cdrom working you can use dselect and point it to get the packages off the
> > cdrom.
> 
> Assuming you have a SCSI pcmcia card, -and- the slink installer finds it,
> it should, well, just work.  Sadly I don't know which SCSI pc-cards are
> well enough supported ... my external CD is an Addonics (thus ATAPI IDE)
> and worked great.  Anyways if it works this way, you only need 2 floppies,
> not 7 or more.
> 
> There is a PLIP Install HOWTO which I hear was recently updated.  It's
> good if you don't have some other form of net connection.
> 

As someone else mentioned also, it's really no big deal to install potato
(probably the best for laptops) by floppy.  Make rescue and root floppies
which are required a couple of times through the installation and use one
other disk to write images to as the installation asks for them on
another nearby computer, if available.

Unless you need to set up an unattended install it would seem a waste of
time to attempt anything else, too time consuming.  Though PCMCIA
ethernet support and install by NFS would be excellent, like the OpenBSD
single disk install :)


Regards,
Steve