In your email to me, Mark Eichin, you wrote: > > The way I've found to do a PCMCIA install most easily was 8 floppies: > 2: standard boot+root > 3: base.tgz 3 disk set > 3: pcmcia-2.3.18_2.0.7.deb, then dpkg --split kernel-image_2.0.7 > > You can probably fit the last 3 onto 2, the pcmcia code is small and > kernel-image is only a little bit larger than one floppy. I could > only find the kernel-image_2.0.7 on master.debian.org in Incoming, > though, which implies that it should show up *somewhere* soon but may > be hard to find in the meantime. (You don't need special support for > pcmcia network cards in the kernel -- the pcmcia package ships with > the appropriate new modules (and everyone uses the 8390 anyway :-)) > > As for compiled-in ether cards: look in the "special-kernels" > directory with the boot disks for alternate boot disks; I don't know > if there is documentation other than the config files there to tell > you which one you want.
OK... what I'm trying to do is have a 2 disk set that will give me a # prompt, and be able to see and configure just about any of the common ethernet cards out there. This means the shared libs ( I guess) and a bunch of other bins. I don't think this will fit onto the 2nd floppy. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "It is a damned poor mind indeed that can't think of at least two ways of spelling any word." Andrew Jackson ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.**
