-
Extensa 610 + LG's PCMCIA CD-Rom = Nothing !!!
Hello everybody.
I'm trying to install a knoppix's brazilian offshoot called Kurumin in a Extensa 610 ( Pentium 150mhz / 32mb RAM / 1.3 Gb / Surecom 100/10mbit PCMCIA Lan Card ). The machine don't have a built-in CD-ROM drive and because this I'm trying to use a LG's CRN-8240E external CD-Rom drive without success.
I already tried to use luelljoc's floppys, and also the knoppix nopcmcia ide2=0x180,0x386 and the drive didn't work.
I had tried to use Mandrake's PCMCIA boot disk and work fine but i can install it because the Hard Drive is to small and the computer is to slow for mdk 9.0. I'm without any other OS in the HD ( the HD is 100% clean, without any kind of partition ) and I can't copy the ISO to HD and boot by loadlin or acess the external CD-ROM Drive.
Anyone know what I can do to boot the CD-ROM in the PCMCIA drive to install it on my Hard Drive ? Any help is welcome.
-
Junior Member
registered user
Good luck
Eventually I moved to Mandrake on one machine for just this reason. It seems to be the only offering that understands PCMCIA CD-Roms.
Is there any chance you could load just enough of Mandrake (by deselecting packages in the initial load configuration) to let you run? Or to at least run long enough to pull down another distribution that will work better for you?
FWIW,
Ewan
-
Junior Member
registered user
Hi,
When you load Mandrake do lsmod to find the driver for your cdrom
Find the entry for your card in /etc/pcmcia/config
Add the same entry to config in the pcmcia_modules floppy of jochens boot disks and make sure the driver is there as well, otherwise put the driver on as well.
Alternatively if you know the driver, like "ide-cs" for my pcmcia IQ drive
do "cardctl ident slotnr (0 for the first one)"
output will be in the form
product info " "," ", " "
manfid: xxxxxx, yyyyyy
function ....
Add
card " "
manfid xxxxxx, yyyyyy
bind "yourdriver"
to the ATA/IDE fixed disk section of config
Try again
Hope this helps
-
Hi,
in the meantime the pcmcia boot floppies have been updated.
Have a look at:
http://www.luell.com/projects.html#knoppix_pcmcia
These disks should work much better than the old ones.
Bye
Jochen
Similar Threads
-
By mpunekar in forum Laptops
Replies: 0
Last Post: 01-05-2005, 05:46 AM
-
By w00dy986 in forum General Support
Replies: 4
Last Post: 12-02-2004, 05:04 PM
-
By slagmi in forum Networking
Replies: 3
Last Post: 11-16-2004, 04:50 PM
-
By bkm_br in forum Hdd Install / Debian / Apt
Replies: 1
Last Post: 09-28-2003, 04:45 PM
-
By Guest in forum General Support
Replies: 1
Last Post: 12-26-2002, 03:02 PM
Posting Permissions
- You may not post new threads
- You may not post replies
- You may not post attachments
- You may not edit your posts
-
Forum Rules
Dell PowerEdge R720 Server - 2x8c CPU,256Gb RAM, 128Gb SSD/3x900Gb SAS, Proxmox
$340.00
DELL PowerEdge R730XD 24x 2.5" Server Dual 750W Dual Heatsink - BareBones TESTED
$269.99
HP ProLiant DL360 G9 Server 2x E5-2660v3 2.60Ghz 20-Core 96GB P440ar
$304.35
Dell Precision T3600 | Xeon E5 | 16GB | GPU | 128GB SSD | Win 10 Pro
$115.00
Intel Xeon E5-2697A V4 2.6GHz CPU Processor 16-Core Socket LGA2011 SR2K1
$39.99
Intel Xeon Gold 6140 SR3AX 2.3GHz 18-Core Processor CPU
$39.99
Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 2.4GHz 35MB 14-Core 120W LGA2011-3 SR2N7
$17.99
SR1XP Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 12 Core 30MB 2.5GHz LGA 2011-3 A Grade Processor
$5.09
HP Workstation Z640 2x Xeon E5-2623V4 32GB Ram Dual 256GB SSD K420 Linux GA
$234.98
Rare WaterCooled HP Z800 Workstation Dual Xeon X5680 16GB RAM 120GB SSD Nvidia
$279.56