I'm trying to do a network (Ftp or NFS) install of Redhat 5.2 onto an old Sharp laptop, P133, which only has a floppy and a PCMCIA slot. I have a Belkin F5D 5020 NIC which works when the laptop had windows 98 on it.

When I do the redhat install from the boot.img floppy, I use "Expert" mode. Eventually, for PCMCIA support, I must install the supplementary disk, or supp.img. This supp.img does not have the correct driver on it for thils Belkin Card. The Belkin requires the "pcnet_cs" driver acccording to other googling.

How do I get the pcnet_cs driver (which I have found) to be used for the install?

I can get to a shell if I do expert install, ftp install, then go to the spawned shell with [alt] + [ctrl] + [F3] and then i can mount/umount floppies.

I have tried to move the pcnet_cs driver onto the supp.img disk, however I can't seem to get the Redhat installer to load this driver.

Here is another posting I found:
groups google search for "how do i get pcnet_cs onto redhat 5.2" and it's the 2nd hit.

post #11 may be useful:
this linuxquestions website: threadid=125893

OK I got around this problem - I just moved the hard drive to a laptop with a with a CDrom, installed redhat 5.2 there, and then moved the hard drive to the laptop without a CDrom. So I've got Redhat on, and also found the right XF86Config.

I'm having quite fun here in my own thread... talking to myself...

threadid=169361

Since I can't post URL's, here is the threadid for a question and answer to this question already..... my bad for not finding it first, but there's a lot of stuff on this site.