Hi!
i got an old latitude XPi 133st which i would like to install a certain distro called damn small linux on (devian based with knoppix live cd.) now to run the install the computer need to boot from cd which i can't, but even tho the bios would allow it, it wouldn't work because the drivers dosn't load untill after that the computer has allready checked for boot devices. i do have a floppy disk for situations like this but since the pcmcia cdrom drivers aren't loaded yet it can't find cd
pls help a confused newbie!
thx in advance...
/viktor

Its one of those chicken before the egg problems. The biggie is to be able to find out if damn small or for that matter, just good old debian is small to, has another floppy with pcmcia support built in, which debian does, and whether that has the pcmcia-cs module to load support for the card... Offhand, have you also considered an FTP install, its rather easy with Debian, you'll of course need a pcmcia nic and a good connection.

Cheers,

Finegan

is it really that bad? are you sure that an ftp install would work on damn small? and how would i do it?
thx

I just took a look at damn small. I kinda found it silly all they have is ISOs when one of the primary uses of it is going to be old machines with small drives and no bootable cdrom. Honestly, the easiest thing would probably be a base install of Debian. The last I checked, if you kept install to a minimum, is that it runs around 200Mb anyway.

Cheers,

Finegan