Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?

[Mike Miller <miller5@uiuc.edu>]

>>>>> "Anselm" == Anselm Lingnau <lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> writes:
    > The current boot disks won't allow you to install over
    > PCMCIA ethernet or off a PCMCIA SCSI bus, AFAIK, but this
    > seems to be worked on.

I've done several installations on laptops with a PCMCIA ethernet
card.  If you copy the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules packages to
the laptop (with a floppy), you can install them with dpkg and do
the rest with dselect and ftp.  Should work for a pcmcia scsi
adapter as well.

Mike


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