on Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 04:38:25PM -0500, Webster Kelsey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am trying to install Debian (woody) on an old Thinkpad 560. I have > created the rescue, boot and drivers1-4 floppies. > > My only means of loading stuff on to the laptop are the floppy drive and > wireless card. I would like to do a network install. The problem is I > can't get the system to recognize the card or install the drivers. > > The wireless card is an ATMEL/RFMD chipset PCMCIA card. How do I make the > drivers avialable so I can do a newtork install of Debian 3.0? Can I get > the drivers to show up in the 'Configure Device Driver Modules' -> 'net' > menu?
Hopefully useful to someone else if not you. There are a few tricks to bootstrapping a laptop install: - If you have a CDROM: Knoppix (or the Debian install disks). - An alternate PCMCIA card (borrowed for the duration of installation) supporting local networking. - SLIP or PLIP: IP over serial or parallel port. Google for my own comments on doing PLIP installation, particularly with IRQless parallel ports. This *won't* be a problem on your 560 AFAIK. I find this method to be highly usable. Requires a null parallel ("laplink") or null serial cable. You can bootstrap the installation itself with Tom's Root Boot (aka tomsrtbt), a floppy-based GNU/Linux. - Remove the HD and mount elsewhere for installation. This requires a disk caddy capable of handling your laptop HD. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin, 1755
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