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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.walltech.com!newsfeed1.aimnet.com!nntp04.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.indiana.edu!news From: Lars Hofhansl <lhofhans@indiana.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing on PCMCIA Hard Disk Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 17:25:32 +0000 Organization: Indiana University Lines: 37 Message-ID: <3229C70B.3678@indiana.edu> References: <4v9q0v$jt7@nr1.ottawa.istar.net> <4v9v85$i97@helena.MT.net> <4vht7i$e5@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: xyplex6-3-13.ucs.indiana.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Brian Somers wrote: > > Nate Williams (nate@trout.mt.sri.com) wrote: > : [ Emailed as well ] > > : In article <4v9q0v$jt7@nr1.ottawa.istar.net>, > [.....] > : >Is there a special boot disk that is required to see PC Card hard > : >disks during the install... Or is this even supported ?? > > : Yep, but even after you get it, you won't be able boot off the disk > : since the PCCARD disk won't be probed until after the machine goes > : multi-user, which would be impossible w/out a completely working system. > > : This is one of the limitations of the the current PCCARD code has since it > : does most of it's work in user-land, and unfortunately I don't see it changing > : anytime in the near future. > > : Sorry! > > Can't you have a small (~30Mb) boot partition on your wd0 ? I'm sure > you could get pccardd and the like on it (along with regular root > partition stuff) - enough to get a hold of your PCMCIA card. > > -- > Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... The pccard-deamon it obviously not included on any of the 2.1.5-Release disks. Where do I get hold of these programs. What else do I have to consider... I want to use a PCMCIA-Modem! TIA, Lars