At 20:16 14/10/01 +0100, you wrote: >Have a computer with a CD drive, looking through the Debian disk right now, >but which bits to copy on to floppy?
If you are looking to install from scratch only from the floppy drive then you will need all to build all 17 disks from the images: dists\potato\main\disks-i386\2.2.23-2001-04-15\images-1.44 but you should be able to install most of it from CD, after you have booted from a floppy. In which case you will just need to build a rescue and a root disks from: dists\potato\main\disks-i386\2.2.23-2001-04-15\images-1.44 but for PCMCIA support during installation you will also probably need a set of the 4 driver disks, also from: dists\potato\main\disks-i386\2.2.23-2001-04-15\images-1.44 Then when you are installing, you will be offered an alternate option of "Configure PCMCIA Support''. There you can select what PCMCIA controller you have and thereafter you should be able to install from the PCMCIA CDROM driver as normal. If these don't work for you then you could try a different "flavour" of boot disk, e.g.: dists\potato\main\disks-i386\2.2.23-2001-04-15\images-1.44\compact Other useful pages to go to are: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO-5.html and if you haven't already read it the Debian installation manual on the CD: /dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.23-2001-04-15/doc/install.en.htm particularly /dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.23-2001-04-15/doc/ch-init-config.en.html#s-configure-pcmcia and /dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.23-2001-04-15/doc/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-create-floppy What was the problem that occurred during installation? >Am trying to find where I could find this 'mini' >distro. There are many. Tomsrtbt (http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html) is one of the most popular and seems to have PCMCIA (I don't have a laptop to check). Try "pcmcia start". If you add pcmcia modules, fix /etc/pcmcia/config also. Trinux (http://trinux.sourceforge.net/) seems to have PCMCIA support with a package you can download. muLinux (http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/) is similar There will probably be many others (see the Tomsrtbt page for links). Hope this helps, Steven. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.murdomedia.net/ PGP/GnuPG keys: http://www.murdomedia.net/keys.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
