[ltp] Slackware pcmcia nfs install?

[Mike Johnson]

You only need the pcmcia boot image if you are installing
from a PCMCIA *disk* drive. If you want to do a network
install, you should be able to use the standard boot
image.

Or that's my experience on Mandrake at least.

Mike.


On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 16:32, John Heim wrote:
> I'm a little fuzzy on doing a slackware install via a pcmcia network card. 
> I have a 755ce. I loaded pcmcia support via the pcmcia.dsk image. That 
> seemed to work. I'm not sure if I then still have to load network modules 
> via the network diskette. I tried and it probed for a network card about 30 
> different ways and didn't find my pcmcia network card.
> 
> Before I bought the pcmcia card I made sure it was in the list of supported 
> cards. There's a second network diskette image on the slack CD. Would that 
> be worth trying?
> 
> By the way, I gave up trying to get the serial port on my Thinkpad 755ce to 
> work. I'm blind and I wanted to do a serial console install but no matter 
> what I did the serial port wouldn't work.
> 
> So what I've been doing is to simultaneously install linux on a machine I'm 
> building for my wife and then type exactly the same thing on the Thinkpad. 
> Eventually I'm going to take the HD out of my wife's old machine and 
> install it in the new one. But in the mean time, the new machine has an old 
> 1 Gb hard drive in it.
> 
> So I've got 4 machines running in my rec room. A linux machine with the 
> slackware CD mounted and exported via nfs. Then I've got the new PC 
> connected via a laplink cable to my windows machine. That way I can do a 
> serial console install on the new PC. And then, of course, I've got the 
> Thinkpad.
> 
> So far so good. I bot both machines to boot via the slack installation 
> diskette. I got pcmcia support loaded. (According to my wife the screens 
> say the same thing more or less.) But like I said, I cannot then get slack 
> to recognize my network card.
> 
> --
> John G. Heim
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> Division of Information Technology
> jheim@doit.wisc.edu
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