On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:46:20AM -0800, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Greetings. I am in the process of loading potato (2.2r0) from CD's onto a > laptop. The machine currently has no OS, but in the past did run > slink. There is no CD-ROM drive, but to load slink I used the rescue/root > floppies then NFSed the CD from another machine. > > Now when I do that, though, I don't get NFS as an option for the > installation; furthermore, "Configure PCMCIA Devices" returns simply "an > error occurred", and even if I use floppy-based base install I am never > able to install pcmcia and therefore the network. > > Does anyone know what the problem might be?
When I did a similar thing to you and had the same problem, I booted up with the floppies and then pretended that I didn't need to configure PCMCIA until I absolutely couldn't continue any further without it. It drove me nuts figuring this out, but fortunately it worked because I was about 60 seconds from having to re-install win95 back on my laptop.
