[ltp] ACK!

[Tino Keitel]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 14:50:27 -0300, Adam Southerland wrote:

[... sad story about a hard disk ]

> Now for the question... Is there a Linux Boot Disk (or can I make one?) 
> that uses my PCMCIA and will load my NIC for say, a New Install? Maybe use 
> files from the Slackware site? or a local FTP Server? (Either way will 
> work.)
> 
> I have a Thinkpad 760XL (166MMX w/ 32Mb Ram and a 2.1Gb HD) and a PCMCIA 
> RTL8139 NIC

Using the Debian Woody installation disks, you can boot from the
floppy, install a few kernel modules to the hard disk (only a small
partition is required here, so you can create it temporary for this
purpose and trash it after that) and get a shell with working pcmcia
support. You can even boot from the floppy and, with a tricky procedure
replace the floppy later with the CD-ROM and install Debian from CDs.
This worked at least on my 765L.

Regards,
Tino

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