Re: Install Help on ThinkPad Wanted
"William V. Vera" <vera@platsol.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I'd be most grateful to anyone who can help me with my installation
> of Debian 1.3.1 on an IBM ThinkPad 760C. I was able to complete
> the base installation from diskettes where I believe I included the
> necessary
> drivers to support my external Panasonic KXL-783A 8X-CD-ROM via
> its PCMCIA credit card interface. I still cannot, however, read any of
> the distribution CDs (in binary ISO image format) because it cannot
> mount /dec/cdrom nor /dev/hd[b|c] when running dselect to load the
> rest. Am I limited to loading it on the same removable hard drive on
> a friend's ThinkPad which has an internal CD-ROM drive?, or is there
> a way around it on mine. If I do load it from my friend's, a different
> model ThinkPad, will it still work on mine after I put the hard drive
> back?
> I welcome any/all suggestions or explanations on how I can overcome
> this obstacle. Thank you.
AFAIK, the standard kernel does *not* include the PCMCI drivers (certainly
not the kernel with the 1.3.1 boot-disks). If you can build a boot-floopy
with PCMCIA support compiled in on some other machine, that should let
you access the CD-ROM.
HTH
--
Stephen
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