[Gllug] Thinkpad 240 install

[Tom Haddon]

Hi Folks,

I have a Thinkpad 240 (300Mhz Celeron, 192MB RAM) laptop with a blank
hard drive. I'm looking into how to install on it, as it has no CD-Rom
drive. I've tried going the Debian floppies route, but the problem I
have is that the PCMCIA Xircom Ethernet card I have isn't being
recognised with the network-drivers floppy. Does anyone have any
suggestions for how to get around this? And no, I don't have a USB
CD-Rom drive (although if that's the only way, I could probably buy one
I guess).

It does have a USB (presumably 1.1) and I have a USB pendrive of 1GB, so
I've considered copying a distro to this and trying to boot from floppy
and then continue the install from the USB, but I'm not sure of the
procedure for this.

Also, a must have is modem drivers, since I'm setting this up for my
brother who doesn't have broadband access. If I can't get that working,
I'm going to have to go the Windows route, which I'd like to avoid if I
can.

Cheers, Tom
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