installing debian with floppies on laptop
I need to install debian on a laptop ( no OS installed ) with a bad dvd-rom drive. I would like to get network up to do network install. Laptop is Toshiba satellite 1805-s203. Etherfast 10/100 PC Card Linksys ( PCMPC100 ) Orinoco Gold Lucent ( PC24E-H-FC ) wireless Which Floppies should I use? I have looked through the list vanilla, compact, etc Not sure how to find floppy with drivers for either card?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: installing debian with floppies on laptop
Take a look at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-boot -from-floppies. BTW, it is always a good idea to read the manual first! Mark Phillips Phillips Marketing, Inc. 602 524-0376 office 480 945-9197 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: tripolar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 11:45 AM To: debian-user Subject: installing debian with floppies on laptop I need to install debian on a laptop ( no OS installed ) with a bad dvd-rom drive. I would like to get network up to do network install. Laptop is Toshiba satellite 1805-s203. Etherfast 10/100 PC Card Linksys ( PCMPC100 ) Orinoco Gold Lucent ( PC24E-H-FC ) wireless Which Floppies should I use? I have looked through the list vanilla, compact, etc Not sure how to find floppy with drivers for either card?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing debian with floppies on laptop
Incoming from tripolar: I need to install debian on a laptop ( no OS installed ) with a bad dvd-rom drive. I would like to get network up to do network install. Laptop is Toshiba satellite 1805-s203. Etherfast 10/100 PC Card Linksys ( PCMPC100 ) That should be supported out of the box by the stock install floppies. Support for it may disappear once you reboot, but recompiling the kernel gets it back. Or, that's what it was like for me a couple of years ago. This may since have changed. Note, you have to say yes to cardbus even if your cards/slots aren't cardbus. This is detailed in /usr/src/linux/documentation... Not sure how to find floppy with drivers for either card?? I believe it uses the ne driver. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing debian with floppies on laptop
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from tripolar: I need to install debian on a laptop ( no OS installed ) with a bad dvd-rom drive. I would like to get network up to do network install. Laptop is Toshiba satellite 1805-s203. Etherfast 10/100 PC Card Linksys ( PCMPC100 ) That should be supported out of the box by the stock install floppies. Support for it may disappear once you reboot, but recompiling the kernel gets it back. Or, that's what it was like for me a couple of years ago. This may since have changed. Note, you have to say yes to cardbus even if your cards/slots aren't cardbus. This is detailed in /usr/src/linux/documentation... Not sure how to find floppy with drivers for either card?? I believe it uses the ne driver. thanks to you and mark for your help I made a rescue, root, and 4 driver floppies. I made it as far as networking which failed before I got blue screen and ended rebooting and starting over. I did a google and it seems I need axnet_cs driver for the linksys pcmcia card. This install I enabled pcmcia support before going to loading modules which is where I am at now. Now the linksys card has lit up the dongle. One question- at what point will it ask me to say Yes to cardbus? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing debian with floppies on laptop
Incoming from tripolar: s. keeling wrote: Note, you have to say yes to cardbus even if your cards/slots aren't cardbus. This is detailed in /usr/src/linux/documentation... One question- at what point will it ask me to say Yes to cardbus? That's in the kernel re-compile stage in make (menu|x)?config, in the pcmcia module stuff. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
