Chris Owen said:Hi, I am trying to do a Debian install on an old laptop. I bought a set of CDs, only to find they are CD-R's, not CD-ROMs, and my old CD drive doesn't read these...try installing the base system with floppies I think that has all the PCMCIA stuff: http://archive.progeny.com/debian/dists/Debian3.0r0/main/disks-i386/base-images-current/images-1.44/ looks like it's 20 1.44MB disks nate
Oh dear this is not going very well.I now find that it's not possible to mount any floppy (as the installation program attempts to do when I run "Install the kernel and driver modules"). If I go "mount /dev/fd0 /floppy", it churns the disk for ages then comes back with "invalid argument". It's not the floppy, I've tried several good ones; and in fact the one I'm trying to mount is the one I booted from!
I have 16MB RAM plus an active 64MB swap space, which should be enough to avoid memory problems I should have thought...
In any case the installation manual seems to imply that I shouldn't have to go through this 20-floppy base install, it should be possible to do a net install via PCMCIA. Does anyone have any further ideas on my original problem, which was that I can't configure PCMCIA support for the install because of no /target/lib/modules/2.2.20/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o file?
Thanks Chris