Howto boot kernel 2.6 + pcmcia nic

[David Hinds]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:32:42PM +0200, Michael Rommel wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> since hours I'm struggling to get the following done:
> 
>  - Laptop with an unformatted 2.5" harddrive
>  - 3COM 3C574 PCMCIA NIC
>  - Floppy
> 

How about, using something like the tomsrtbt distribution, which is
one floppy and supports PCMCIA, and using that to format and download
a distribution to a spare partition on the hard drive, and then doing
a disk-to-disk install?

Or, find a distribution that provides a PCMCIA install disk.

- Dave