![]() ![]() I've installed the complete base system, and the next step is to get a better kernel in there. ![]() Right - 20 sucessful disks and 50+ dead ones later I think the floppy drive is either dodgy, or simply excessively picky. You see - my normal method of installing is to boot with a boot/root pair, and three or four driver disks, then to install the rest over a net connection. So now I'm groaning about having to download and install 20 floppy disks worth of base image. It seems that I can't get PCMCIA to work, so I can't install over either of my PCMCIA cards, and the on-board Realtek card is not working at this point - either the module is not available, or the kernel doesn't contain this module. Firstly, boot with pci=off to stop reboots when the southbridge chip is touched. ![]() I'm installing Debian Stable (woody) from a net install. Any queries - email me from this mailer page Installation 11 Mbit 802.11b wireless NIC, a Dlink DWL-660, using orinoco_cs module.RTL 8139 10/100 Mbit wired NIC, using the 8139too module.20 Metric Gb Fujitsu 2.5" hard drive (about 16.8 real Gb effective).112 Mb ram, 16 Mb is stolen for the video.Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1500+ at 1.3 GHz, 64 Kb L1 cache, 256 Kb L2 cache, 2641 BogoMIPs.The same goes for almost any Compaq bearing the name "Presario" whether its a desktop or a laptop. The short of it is, the Compaq Presario 900 is a piece of shit and shouldn't have been sold. ![]()
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