It's got to be simple, and documented somewhere, but I've done an earnest combing of the faqs, howto's, and lists:
SUMMARY: trying to install slink on toshiba satelite pro 425 (on new 6G hd), w/ Xircom cem288 card. I never seem to be prompted for the drivers disk/image in dbootstrap (or before). DETAILS: trying to do this over a hd install through a win98 partition (only put it on, after doing all the same with boot disks, both resc1440.bin, and the tecra images (they wouldn't boot at all)) so i get into dbootstrap, initialize all the partitions, then try to -Configure PCMCIA support: get "/sbin/cardmgr not found -Configure Device Driver modules: get "/lib/modules/2.0.36/modules.dep not found" -also I notice, when I run 'grep' at a prompt, I get "The drivers disk must be installed to be able to run /bin/grep" -also notice that the /lib/modules directory is just plain empty. When I try to create a boot disk or install Lilo, I get general errors. I brought the / partition (far) under the 1023rd cylinder, but lilo still has problems. So I just do a base install, hoping to work it out later grabbing base2-1.tgz off the win98 partition. I reboot, (running loadlin linux root=/dev/hda2 rw to get back), and /lib/modules (what used to be /target/lib/modules) still empty. But I notice when I do a 'dpkg -l', there's a line for pcmcia-cs 3.0.5-10. This caused even bigger problems when, I just tried to install the pcmcia-cs package manually, because it can't find anything in /lib/modules and it seems to puts the pcmcia-cs package in a continuous limbo, where I can't get back to 3.0.5-10. SO..... what do I do? I just can't find the place, where I'm supposed to tell the rescue disk to look at the drivers disk. sky [a newish linux user, i apologize in advance, when someone points me to the faq/howto line that says exactly what to do]
