Dick Steflik wrote: > I have a Toshiba Portege 3015ct that I've een running a very old install > of woody on and have been trying to upgrade to sarge. I have to do this > by booting from floppies as there is no CDROM. I've made the four > floppies from the current release (and the march one also), when I boot > the boot disk, goes OK, load the rook diskette and still OK, feed in the > net-drivers disk, press enter and it says it is detecting the network > and 2% of the way into loading yenta-socket everything hangs. My NIC is > a 3com 574-tx pcmcia card. Since I've tried this with three different > releases of sarge I'm suspecting there is somthing wrong with this > driver disk. > > Can anyone help me out. > > Dick Steflik > Dept of Computer Science > Binghamton University > Binghamton, NY > >
Is there no network access on the laptop at all? If not, can you not edit /etc/apt/sources.list to use sarge and do a dist-upgrade?
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