Subject: Re: how to perform NetBSD installation to CF card
To: Russell McManus <russell.mcmanus@morganstanley.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/10/2001 18:39:13
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:05:53PM -0500, Russell McManus wrote:
>
> I'm trying to perform a NetBSD installation to a CF card that is
> plugged into my laptop via a PCMCIA adapter. I am trying to use the
> INSTALL kernel and sysinst as they appear on the 1.5.1 boot floppy
> that I used to install NetBSD on to the laptop.
>
> When I reboot from the boot floppy, the INSTALL kernel does not
> recognize wd1, which is the CF card.
>
> wd1 is recognized when I boot the laptop using the 1.5.1
> GENERIC-LAPTOP kernel. I've verified that the CF card works; I can
> mount filesystems on the card, copy files, etc.
>
> Does the INSTALL kernel have PCMCIA support included? (I would guess
> that it does).
Maybe you have to try the INSTALL-LAPTOP floppy set then.
The difference is that INSTALL has pcmcia support and INSTALL-LAPTOP has
cardbus support.
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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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