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Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?



Mike Miller <miller5@uiuc.edu> writes:
> 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.

As another data-point: I'm writing this on an IBM 760CD.  But yes, I did
have prblems getting PCMCIA support going (no apm symbols in the 1.3.1
boot-disk kernel.)

-- 
Stephen
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"Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me


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