How, if it's possible, would I install Slackware using a pcmcia cdrom drive? I am trying to install with the cd on a laptop that doesn't have a cd drive. Only an external floppy.

I've made all the disks, boot, root, pcmcia...Would the PCMCIA cd drive be in /dev?

I installed Slack 8.0 on my old Thinkpad 560 with a pcmcia CD-Rom drive.

It was pretty easy. after loading the boot and root disks, at the prompt, it asks if you want to load the pcmcia drivers. put that disk in your floppy and type:
it will load the drivers and your CD-Rom will spring to life.
After that proceed with setup.

On my system it designated the CD-Rom as /dev/hdd

On a side note to this, I've been trying to install Slack 9.0 on the same system, but the pcmcia disk doesn seem to be working. It loads the drivers without any apparent errors, but when I run setup it can't locate the CD-Rom. I'm still trying to figure this one out.

I seem to have stumbled across the solution to the problem in Slack 9.0.
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