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Thread: Once again: PCMCIA-CDROM

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    Once again: PCMCIA-CDROM

    Hi everybody! This is my first post here and my English isn't really fluent, so please be forgiving ....
    OK, Facts first. It's a old Compaq Laptop. P133, 80MB RAM, 2G HDD. No internal CDROM. Obsolete BIOS.
    The PCMCIA-CDRW is a Sony CRX75A (supported by ide-cs in 16bit-mode only).
    So I tried the PCMCIA-Bootdisks from www.luell.com and almost made it to the console I need to install
    Gentoo on that box. Yeah, almost. Here the output:

    Loading PCMCIA modules...
    Starting cardmanager...
    cardmanager [12]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
    Accessing KNOPPIX CDROM at /dev/hdc.../modules/cloop.o: init_module:
    Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid
    IO and IRQ parameters

    Damned, I can hear the CDRW spin up ... but no go. lsmod looks like that:

    knoppix# lsmod
    ide-cs 3140 1
    ds 6344 2 [ide-cs]
    i82092 6488 0 (unused)
    i82365 12388 2
    pcmcia_core 39488 0 [ide-cs ds i82092 i82365]
    knoppix#

    Hmm, looks quite OK. I haven't specified any parameters, maybe I should have done so?
    /etc/pcmcia/config is OK too. Did I miss something? Any help from you guys (and girls)
    would be very appreciated...

    yours kea

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    What I did on my old laptop was install the base "Woody" from boot floppies and the PCMCIA CD-ROM, then copy the Knoppix CD to a hard disk partition and boot it from there with a Knoppix boot floppy. However, I have a 6 GB hard drive and you only have a 2 GB hard drive. I forget exactly how big the base "Woody" install is, but you should have room for it and a 768 MB CD image.

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