Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> I was wondering...I've got an IBM thinkpad here at the house that my
> Daugher would like me to load Mandrake on for her. I've tried the usual
> way of doing this but it's a no go. The CDROM is connected by a removable
> PCMCIA card that the Madnrake setup is unable to detect. So, my question
> is how in the world is one supposed to install in a situation like this?
>
> It's an older Thinkpad. I believe it's only a P1 133Mhz processor with
> 40MB of RAM if that gives any idea as to it's age. Other than that I don't
> know a lot about this particular machine. It seems to be a fairly well
> behaved machine.
>
> So how does one go about this?
Have you tried a boot floppy containing /mnt/cdrom/images/pcmcia.img ?
Pierre
> thanks in advance,
>
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