A notebook as a gateway? hmmm Did you try to boot the installation with loadlin(on a dos partition)? It's pretty easy with debian.
http://www.au.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-drive Good luck, Lester On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 11:14:51PM +1000, Antony Clarke wrote: > I have googled so much my eyes are going to fall out. > > I am attempting to install linux on an old NEC Versa V as a gateway for my > adsl connection and/or wireless lan connection. I want this so it's in my > roof to minimise loss on the coax. My problem is trying to do a network > install. I can't get either Xircom card (10mb ethernet + modem credit card, > realport 10/100) or netgear FA-410 nic to be recognised/configured. > > I don't have a cd-rom or access to a pcmcia cd-rom. > > Does anyone have any ideas? > > Cheers, > > Antony Clarke > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
