Hi all:
I enjoyed my first go at installing woody on laptop with no cdrom drive yesterday :-) The floor was littered with hurled floppies by the time I went to bed.
I ground to a halt at installing the base system, however. I installed the kernel modules ok, then configured the pcmcia.conf file on console 2 to use my network card and the pcnet_cs driver. This resulted in the two high beeps and lsmod showing pcnet_cs ok. I then configured the network to use eth0 and gave it the appropriate addresses etc. So then I tried to use the network to install the base system, but I can't get eth0 interface up.
All the right info is there that I think it should have, but no eth0.
Bah.
Incidentally, I loaded into ramdisk0 and root fs is currently mounted on /[some-dir-I've-forgotten-the-name-of].
Can anyone think of anything I should be looking for? Interfaces file is in /etc/pcmcia/network. loopback is working.
Ta, Jen
Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
The floor was littered with hurled floppies by the time I went to bed.
Is it just me, or are floppy disks getting worse?
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Can anyone think of anything I should be looking for? Interfaces file is in /etc/pcmcia/network. loopback is working.
Not much, sadly. Some toshibas needed special bootdisks, but I expect they've grown out of that by now. All I'd do if I were you is keep changing parts methodically until something works.
On Saturday 21 June 2003 10:49, MJ Ray wrote:
Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
The floor was littered with hurled floppies by the time I went to bed.
Is it just me, or are floppy disks getting worse?
I've never worked out if the media is getting worse or the Drives.
Mind you the fact that you can buy branded OEM drives for a little less than a fiver would point to the latter.
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
I enjoyed my first go at installing woody on laptop with no cdrom drive yesterday :-) The floor was littered with hurled floppies by the time I went to bed.
Hey - someone else running the same old clunker as me! From what I remember (last install was August last year) I used TomsRTBT to get as far as networking, then sucked debootstrap over (I think you need a sane version of wget, too) Then normal Debian. Seems to be an OK machine but never got the IRDA going, there's a 2.2 driver for those with serious amounts of spare time ;-) TomsRTBT has got me out of a few holes before now...
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