[Gllug] Almost but not quite

Kim Hawtin kim at aldigital.co.uk
Wed Jan 23 17:53:02 UTC 2002


On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 02:21:47PM +0000, George F. Saxby wrote:
> Hi,
>  After what seems an age I managed to get Linux on my venerable old thinkpad  
> 760ED. I did it by using a pcmcia boot disk from deadRat 6.2.& FTP the rest 
> 18hours worth for 800Mb  I did try SuSe who required a minimum of 50+Mb of 
> RAM for the same task & refused to go on with less. Debian Potato said yup we 
> can do that provided you supply some parameters for the Xircon pcmcia card  
> tulip driver I gave it what windows had used for memory & irq  which it 
> promptly spat out & refused to go further.
> 
> 	Has anybody else got a tried & proven method of net (internet/ local ) using 
> a distro with floppy / pcmcia access only.

this is why i chose Debian 2.2, as its floppy install then allowed me
to install the rest wirelessly =) via a pcmcia lucent wireless adapter.

yours,

kim
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