Thanks to all who replied. I don't have any idea how I missed it through the 3 or 4 attempts I had made previously, but having you folks point out "look right there" I finally managed to see the place where I could initialize PCMCIA and the install went fine over the weekend. I now have a laptop that I can use again - one remaining task is to delete KDE and install wmaker. KDE on a 486 with 40M of RAM is asking a lot :) I just went with defaults when installing packages, forgetting that I'd end up with KDE. Thanks again - I appreciate the help and the attitude it was offered with. Oh, I *might* have an answer as to what bf stands for. Searching google with debian and bf, the only matches that made any sense was that bf stands for boot-floppies. Now, why other flavours that have boot floppies don't use bf in their name, I don't know. I'd hazard a guess that since the 2.4 kernel isn't part of the main distro and they're *only* available on floppies (I think) they're labeled as bf. Please note the high level of conjecture in the above 2 paragraphs :) On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:53:05 -0500 Mike Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com> wrote: > Kenneth D. Weinert (mc@quarter-flash.com) had this to say on 12/13/02 at 10:01: > > I *know* I'm missing something here, because I did it once before, but > > I appear to now be missing a crucial step. > > > > I'm trying to install Woody on an old ThinkPad (701C, the one with the > > butterfly keyboard) and I don't have a CD drive available. -- /~\ The ASCII Ken Weinert Ken.Weinert@ihs.com \ / Ribbon Campaign 303-858-6956 (V) 303-705-4258 (F) X Against HTML GnuPG: 9274F1CE GnuPG available at http://www.gnupg.org/ / \ Email! 1D87 3720 BB77 4489 A928 79D6 F8EC DD76 9274 F1CE C:\DOS C:\DOS\RUN RUN\DOS\RUN
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