[ltp] ACK!

[Adam Southerland]

I'll be looking into various methods...

It seems the Slackware Boot/Root/Module disks don't work with my 
PCMCIA/RTL8139NIC either... (No IRQs... Could be a slack problem... I'll try 
debian boot disks and see whats up...

Then I'll probably do what you mention - create an extra partition... I may 
leave it though - this could happen again =)  (Kinda like a restore 
partition, enough to boot and get back setup =)

Thanks!


----Original Message Follows----
From: Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@innominate.com>
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] ACK!
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:26:04 +0200

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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