Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?

[Sen Nagata <sen_ml@eccosys.com>]

at some point around 12 Feb 1998 12:58:39 -0600
Mike Miller <miller5@uiuc.edu> mentioned:

> >>>>> "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.

i did not find pcmcia-modules to be necessary in my case (may be
i was lucky as far as the hardware i have).  i ftp-ed the pcmcia-cs package
to a dos floppy and copied it to a fresh install of debian 1.3.x
and did a 'dpkg -i'.  this allowed me to use dselect w/ ftp.

if people are interested in a few more details, i have something at:

  http://www.htp.org/~sen/debian/hu2/install.html

of course, it's only for one particular laptop (dec hinote ultra2)...YMMV

-sen


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