install over network with PCMCIA
I have a laptop with a floppy drive and PCMCIA ethernet, but no CD
drive. I want to install the base system over the network, using only
the rescue, root and driver disks. I configure PCMCIA support and my
ethernet card is recognized; but when I configure the network, it says
"Network is configured but not activated". Indeed, ifconfig shows no
eth0 interface. What do I do???
I looked at the messages on tty3 to see what's going wrong. The
command "./network eth0" was complaining that the file
/var/lib/misc/pcmcia-scheme doesn't exist. It was right, because in
fact /var/lib didn't even exist yet. I tried commenting out the
offending line (it was in /target/etc/pcmcia/shared which is called
by /target/etc/pcmcia/network) and the error message went away when I
ran /target/etc/pcmcia/network, but the eth0 interface still didn't
get activated.
--David
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