Re: [SLE] PCMCIA eth cards and Boot for old computer.

From: Linda A. W. (suse_at_tlinx.org)
Date: 07/26/04

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    Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:47:53 -0700
To: James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com>, suse-linux-e@lists.suse.com

    James Knott wrote:

    > I seem to recall some old DOS utilities, that would direct booting to
    > the CD. One of those might do the trick. Another possibility, would
    > be a network install. You'd mount the CD on another system and share
    > it via NFS or Samba and then with the boot floppy from SuSE, install
    > over a network.

    ===
        The system no longer has a working DOS partition on it. I was just
    hoping to get by (for
    laziness's sake) w/o burning flopppies. Your idea of using NFS or SMB
    is probably the best
    way even though it only has a builtin 10Mb ethernet (I probably could
    use a pcmcia add-in
    card to get around that for purposes of the install...in fact...might
    not be a bad idea to just
    buy an extra 100Mb card since the card I could use for it is a 3com575
    based card and I
    don't know if it is supported in 9.1. I know support for it was broken
    in 9.0 -- the driver and
    card utils had a driver version mismatch on the install CD. :-(

        pcmcia cards are still pretty expensive for ethernet...unlike for
    desktop systems where you
    can find them for under $10 at places like Fry's. Haven't seen any
    gigabyte PCMCIA cards.
    I'm not sure -- but it might be the pcmcia bus specification. I'm not
    sure if it can handle a
    gigabit xfer speed...isn't the pcmcia bus still 33MHz * 32 bits? That'd
    be pushin' it for a
    gigabit card w/o some moderate buffering -- and that'd still be using
    100% of the bus's BW.

        Have only seen 1 laptop w/gigabit ethernet (a dell) so far and that
    was built-in.

        Thanks for the idea on the network install. I'm sure it would be
    faster than the builtin
    CD even if the CD is 4-8x just because of the seek latency...

    -linda 

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