In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Stromberg) writes:
> I don't know anything about PCMCIA, but I know that if you know what you're > doing (like checking dependencies and such) using dpkg is ok - dselect is > there to help you check dependencies and to display what packages there are. > So I'd say go ahead and use dpkg to install the package. > > Helpful? Yes indeed, thank you. For the record, I used the standard boot/root/base1,2,3 floppies. I then used dd to dump a tar file of the pcmcia debian packages to floppy, and dd at the other side to retrieve them. "dpkg -i" installed the packages (first time it complained about a missing modules directory - guess I got the order wrong). I configured the network by hand (ifconfig and route - there probably is a better way of doing this) and then I was talking to the rest of the world and could use dselect. Curiously I had another problem, that is all the boot kernels I used (buzz, buzz-fixed and rex - I tried them all several times each), gave nfs_* symbols not resolved (symbols in 2.0.6 don't match version 2.0.6 or similar message). This means that I couldn't load the nfs module and so had to use ftp access instead. I'm puzzled by this as I can't remember the same problem with the other two (desktop) systems I've installed. Thanks to the poster and Brian Mays who emailed me, I'm now up and running. Tony Robinson
