Re: pcmcia support and debian
David Mussington wrote:
> I have just purchased a used AST Ascentia 810N notebook pc. This system
> doesn't have a cd rom drive, so I am forced to use a PCMCIA-enabled one to
> install Debian. Could anyone tell me if the Debian 2.0 CD (I just bought
> the official user guide with the cds included) contains the drivers to
> recognize this kind of cd rom drive? I don't have the drive yet either, as I
> am shopping around, but would appreciate any advice/experiences you might
> care to report.
I don't by any means claim to be a wintel hardware expert, but I've been
told that some of the PCMCIA cards just extend the IDE bus to the card,
and that this is the way the portable PCMCIA hard disks can actually be
booted from (I was impressed). If there are CD cards that work this way
and CD cards that dont, it might be preferable to get one that does.
Or at least to get a CD card you can boot windoze from. This is such an
easy test and one the dealer you are buying from might just know???
Anybody out there who really knows?
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Charles B. (Ben) Cranston
mailto:zben@ni.umd.edu
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~zben
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