Installing on a portable

[Tony Robinson <ajr@softsound.com>]

Can someone help me to install Debian on a portable (PCMCIA, no CDROM)?

Is there a "how to install with PCMCIA mini-FAQ" that I missed?

I've got as far as working out that the default kernel is compiled with
PCMCIA support, that there exists a pcmcia-cs*.deb package, but the boot
time network configure fails as there is no PCMCIA module loaded, nor
does it seem to come with base.  I could install base, copy over the
pcmcia-cs*.deb package on floppy and I assume use dkpg to install it -
only the man page for dkpg says use dselect and dselect want to install
the lot.  Any pointers, I can't be alone with this problem?

[ for background, I run six Linux boxes, two of the desktop boxes now
  run Debian, the other will soon, and the other three machines are
  portables so I need to know how to do this right.]


Tony Robinson