The slack PCMCIA thing seemed to be a real pain when I tried it.  I
believe I had to boot with a boot/root combo and then use the
supplementary PCMCIA disk...you just type "pcmcia" after you login as root
and it'll prompt you for the disk.  That's new since Slack4 or something.

Adam Maloney
Systems Administrator
Sihope Communications

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Michael Vieths wrote:

> While we're on the topic of the installfest...
> 
> I picked up a Dell laptop at the computer show a few weeks ago.  The
> Cd-ROM drive is hooked up through a PCMCIA SCSI card.  I haven't had time
> to sit down and build a bootdisk yet to try and get Linux installed on it
> (default SCSI bootdisk/PCMCIA rootdisk for Slackware 7.0 didn't appear
> to work).
> Anyone who'll be at the installfest have any experience installing on that
> sort of configuration?  There's no NIC/Modem yet, so network installs
> aren't an option.
> 
> Michael Vieths
> Foeclan at Winternet.Com
> 
> 
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