<div dir="ltr">Slackware has more install options than anything...<br><pre>And finally, there is a very small image containing the Smart Boot Manager:<br><br>sbootmgr.dsk This nifty little tool allows selecting various devices to boot<br>
from a menu, and even allows booting a CD-ROM in machines where<br> the BIOS doesn't support it (or it's supposed to support it, but<br> it just doesn't work). If you have trouble booting the<br>
Slackware CD-ROM, you might try writing this image to a floppy,<br> booting it, and then selecting your CD-ROM drive as the boot<br> device. <br></pre><br>If Slackware won't run it, check to see if the power cord is unplugged...<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Geoffrey <<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> That will be a tough one as the NIC drivers must be loaded through the<br>
> pcmcia dirvers. I don't know of any tiny image floppies that support pcmcia<br>
> off the top of my head. But, hey! It's all open source so it can be<br>
> assembled! Basically a kernel with the correct modules compiled in (a tad<br>
> smaller than loadable modules) get substituted for a kernel image on a boot<br>
> floppy. The trick is squeezing it all down to be the same size of smaller<br>
> than the original.<br>
<br>
</div>Check out the Slackware pcmcia.dsk supplemental disk:<br>
<br>
"This supplemental disk provides support for laptop devices. It allows<br>
installing through a network or CD-ROM drive card. To use this disk to<br>
scan for PCMCIA devices (this is only done if you need to use them<br>
DURING the installation), you enter 'pcmcia' after loading the 'install'<br>
disks and logging in."<br>
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--<br>
Until later, Geoffrey<br>
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