[Gllug] installing LINUX via PCMCIA to a laptop

[George@College]

Hi,
 Thank you all for your tips & pointers seems I am going to need a tad more 
ram than 12Mb to do this :-{


On Sunday 18 November 2001 23:37, you wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 03:32:23PM +0000, George F Saxby wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  well it had to happen I decided to install LInux to my ancient laptop.
> > Problem is as far as I can see is to get the laptop to see the PCMCIA
> > cdrom & install from there.
>
> Never tried that - might need to build a custom kernel with PCMCIA cdrom
> nailed in -- so that is chicken & egg unless you have another Linux box to
> build it on.
>
> >  OR
> > see the PCMCIA netcard and install via http / ftp
>
> Dead easy with RedHat - there are 3 floppy images with different kernels,
> one is for PCMCIA boxen and has lots of PCMCIA network cards configured.
>
> > 	Since I am completely clueless as to how I go about either type of
> > install some pointer would be nice
>
> Once you have created a boot floppy with the correct kernel: boot it and
> tell it what the network config is (ie IP addr), tell it what M/C has the
> contents of the cdrom copied to hard disk & where that is, & off you go.

-- 
George F. Saxby
   Snr. Engineer
   ITS Team

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