Re: PCMCIA issues installing potato on an old laptop
> Hi folks,
>
> I originally posted this to debian-user, but was advised to repost it
> here.
I have a curious thought, which is sneaky but probably should work.
Since once upon a time a slink install obviously worked fine ... install
slink base (plus apt, if you had to tag for it seperately) *only* - ought
to be lots smaller than your fully usable setup.
reboot
adjust apt to point at woody/unstable
apt-get update && apt-get install console-apt
adjust apt to point at potato/stable
use console-apt to pick things in reasonably sized chunks
so you don't overflow your new /var/cache/apt area.
I've done this myself with pretty good success. One time I went even
further and symlinked /var/cache/apt/archives into an, ahem, much larger
space while I did the upgrades.
It's a lot slower than just reloading your selections list (gotten via
dpkg --get-selections > /mnt/floppy/oldpicks
... and loaded anew via
dpkg --set-selections
:> ) but, it does have the advantage of being a bit controllable. Also
we've a lot more packages than we used to, maybe of several that do similar
things you want to try a new one, so you'll have the freedom to read the
descriptions and "go shopping".
If console-apt bombs out on you, run apt-get update and then launch capt
again (capt is console-apt's real name)... if it does it *again* use
apt-get install <packagename-that-you-just-tried>
since it probably has some rude message for you (dependency resolution
usually).
* Heather Stern * star@ many places...
> ----- Forwarded message from Damon Muller <dm-debian-user@empire.net.au> -----
> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:01:20 +1100
> From: Damon Muller <dm-debian-user@empire.net.au>
> Subject: PCMCIA issues installing potato on an old laptop
> To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>
> Hi gang,
>
> I have an old 486 laptop, an NEC UltraLite VERSA, with 8m of RAM. Up
> until today I'd been happily running bo (I think, a few releases ago
> anyway) on it, mainly using it as a dumb terminal so I can lay in bed
> and read my email. For a while I'd wanted to upgrade it, mainly because
> I wanted a DHCP client on it and there is now no-where you can get
> packages for the old version.
>
> I wanted to do a fresh install, mainly because there is so little HD
> space to use apt to install. Also because I wanted to resize the swap
> partition.
>
> Anyway, I can get most of the way through the install, and PCMCIA card
> services recognises both my pc card modem and network card. This should
> be a good thing, as I need to install it over the network. However, when
> I tell it to use DHCP to get an IP address, it says something like:
>
> Hw address write mishap
>
> (something like that, it scrolls away too quickly), then the screen
> fills up with the following:
>
> eth0: Mismatched read page pointers 1 vs 0.
>
> And repeats ad-nauseum until the install program times out and kills it.
> The same thing also happens if I try to anything network-y manually,
> except I can't kill it.
>
> I know this card works with debian, as I've been using it with an older
> debian on the same machine for a long time (years, probably). I have
> never had a problem with it before. cardmgr recognises the card as a
> `Danplex EN-6200P2' if that helps anyone, and it's using the pcnet_cs.o
> and 8390.o modules.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> cheers,
>
> damon
>
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