[H-GEN] installing redhat 7.3 or 8.0 on laptop > hangs on pcmciadd

[Matthew Taylor]

[ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and     ]
[ Unix-related topics. Posts from non-subscribed addresses will vanish. ]

experiencing this wierd behaviour at moment.

made pcmcia disk using

dd if=pcmcia.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

loads and installs no problem, reaches the stage where it asks for 
pcmciadd disk.

create this with

dd if=pcmciadd.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

seems to load img from floppy OK, can hear FDD clunking away, but HANGS 
on screen with message

"initializing PC Card Devices"

This on a Toshiba Satellite 2540CDS, as far as I know there is no faulty 
hardware.
I haved repeated this with pcmcia.img files from mirror.aarnet and 
planetmirror and from /images on iso images.
all of these filed have the same md5sum result.

this occurs on both 7.3 and 8.0.

ideas?

__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.
http://mailplus.yahoo.com

--
* This is list (humbug) general handled by majordomo at lists.humbug.org.au .
* Postings to this list are only accepted from subscribed addresses of
* lists 'general' or 'general-post'.  See http://www.humbug.org.au/