Re: install problems :\

["Joseph S.Kallo" <jkallo@midwest.net>]

If you want to wait 'till the meeting I am planning on bringing along my
laptop along with its external cdrom drive. Its gotten RedHat onto my 486dx
about 75 times now. You'll be welcome to use it.

Joe

At 05:15 PM 9/16/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>i have a p100 acer laptop that i wanna put some form of *nix on.  i was
>given the idea to do a smb install (kudos to matt walker).  the problem is
>that i have a xircom ce-10bt pcmcia net card and my red hat 5.2 install boot
>disks dont support it.  i checked red hat's site and they say that no xircom
>card is supported even for red hat 6.  oddly however the pcmcia support that
>they use does support xircom cards (although not the one i have).
>
>anyone have any ideas? this lappy doesnt have a cdrom drive and only has a
>500 meg hard drive.
>
>im gonna attempt to get suse (they actually openly admirt to supporting
>xircom cards although not my card specifically, but it might still work)
>
>any other ideas? any recommended distros?  anyone know if freebsd will
>support the card for such an installation? (i couldnt get on freebsd's site
>for some reason)
>
>Casey Boone
>
>
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Joseph S. Kallo
Dpt. of Philosophy
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

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