I didn't have any luck finding this topic in the archive, but I'm sure it's come up before...
I'm being tortured by a Sony Vaio laptop which does not have a built in CDROM. Instead it has a PCMCIA connected CDROM drive. Happily the laptop is able to boot from the CDROM, so I just stuck my 2.1 CD in and tried to install Debian. It boots and I can fix up the harddrive, but unfortunately I can't install the operating system because Debian can't find the CDROM. (even though it booted from it!) Could somebody tell me how I can install Debian on this thing? (I'm installing 2.1 because I have CDs for it but I plan to upgrade to 2.2 immediately, so let me know if this could be done better starting with 2.2) I found a little bit in the HOWTO documents about installing from a PCMCIA device, but it didn't look pretty. I thought I'd check to see if there was a proper Debian way to do it. Thanks, Jim To help narrow down the possibilities, here are my other resources: a computer with debian 2.2 (but no net access, if I need to download something, it could be tricky) a Sun with net access (but Solaris) a PCMCIA NIC for the laptop (NFS boot?) I can't burn CDROMs I have plenty of floppies around if that's what I have to do.