Installing on a portable
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
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