"William V. Vera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'd be most grateful to anyone who can help me with my installation > of Debian 1.3.1 on an IBM ThinkPad 760C. I was able to complete > the base installation from diskettes where I believe I included the > necessary > drivers to support my external Panasonic KXL-783A 8X-CD-ROM via > its PCMCIA credit card interface. I still cannot, however, read any of > the distribution CDs (in binary ISO image format) because it cannot > mount /dec/cdrom nor /dev/hd[b|c] when running dselect to load the > rest. Am I limited to loading it on the same removable hard drive on > a friend's ThinkPad which has an internal CD-ROM drive?, or is there > a way around it on mine. If I do load it from my friend's, a different > model ThinkPad, will it still work on mine after I put the hard drive > back? > I welcome any/all suggestions or explanations on how I can overcome > this obstacle. Thank you.
AFAIK, the standard kernel does *not* include the PCMCI drivers (certainly not the kernel with the 1.3.1 boot-disks). If you can build a boot-floopy with PCMCIA support compiled in on some other machine, that should let you access the CD-ROM. HTH -- Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
