Hi, Be aware that ftp installation on a laptop is still a problem with Debian.
We have Debian installed on three laptops, named and nonamed ones. Its working fine. However, if you do not have a Debian CD, you will have trouble. The installation disks do not allow you to directly enable PCMCIA support. So you have to install additional network and pcmcia packages with the help of another ftp-able machine. To our experience the pcmcia packages is not consistend with the rest of the debian distributuion, so you have to compile it by yourself, meaning you have to install some source packages by yourself. Again, it works but you have to work a lot. We do not understand why the PCMCIA packages is inconsistent with the rest of the distribution. Maybe the maintainers just don't have this configuration: laptop with PCMCIA ethernet cards. We do not want to blame anybody, the whole thing escpecially the PCMCIA package by David Hinds is great work! Just to make clear what the current situation is. Markus Diesmann Neurobiology and Biophysics Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg germany -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
