[H-GEN] laptop installs

[Christopher Biggs]

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Nikolai Lusan <nikolai at humbug.org.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> Greetings,
>
> I am planning on installing debian on a laptop at the meeting this
> saturday. I have been playing around with trying to get it to boot
> various images from the cdrom but it seems to have issues with most of
> the existing netinst disks. I was wondering if anyone had an idea on
> where I might find a suitable netinst ISO or any comments on which of
> the various versions of the boot disks I might want.
>
> I have had a look at the current series of stable disk images for debian
> and had some concerns:
>       pcmcia support - the network card is a 3com pcmcia
>       cdrom support - can I burn base and drivers onto a cd to speed
>                       things up
>
The standard debian install should support pcmcia fine.

I've installed debian on several laptops, and I don't remember it ever
being particularly difficult.   I always do netinst since I have a
local apt-proxy cache.    

There's a 180mb cd image called 'bonzai(sic) linux' (STFW) which is an
install disk for a cut-down debian with kde.  I installed it on a dell
pIII about 5 months ago with no problems, so maybe try that?

--cjb



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