Hi list, i am trying to change from RedHat Linux 5.2 (apollo) to Debian (2.2/potato) on my IBM Thinkpad 755c (486DX4-75 with 20MB RAM).
This notebook has no local cdrom, so the only way to install it is via network. At all, i usually use the minimum install on my systems, so an installation via ftp directly from the internet is ok for me (as long as i may use the permanent internet connection in the company) - time does not matter. This is what i did until now: Step 1 - Getting the disk images - downloaded and created root and rescue floppy disk - downloaded and created the 3 driver floppy disks - downloaded and created the 11 base floppy disks All images were downloaded from ftp.de.debian.org, for 1.44 MB floppy disks. Step 2 - Installation - Boot from rescue disk with boot parameter "linux floppy=thinkpad" - Changed to root disk - Configured keyboard & diskspace (de-latin1-nodeadkeys, hda5 32MB swap, hda6 550MB "/") - then configured pcmcia which detects my Xircom network card, but shows errors about "unresolved symbols in modules" for example "xirc2ps_cs.o", so finally the install routine says: no network cards detected. - someone said in this list in April or March, that you can try "update-modules ; depmod -a ; /etc/init.d/pcmcia start", but it did not work on my system. - so all i can do is to finish the base installation from floppy disks, resulting in a very low level debian system with no network. ( Even "pump ; update-modules ; depmod -a ; /etc/init.d/pcmcia start" did not work after installing and rebooting the base system (BTW, installing LILO properly in the MBR did not work correct too, but i was able to help myself concernig this) Does someone knows a way to get a running network via pcmcia on potato? I installed RedHat 5.2 in the same way, but there it worked... Regards, Daniel
