Subject: Re: 1.3 install to PCMCIA-3 HD
To: None <dillera@gse.upenn.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/06/1998 10:58:54
On Fri, 06 Feb 1998 12:37:30 -0500 
 "Andrew Diller" <dillera@protean.gse.upenn.edu> wrote:

PCMCIA disk drives were not supported in 1.3, but some of them are
supported in post-1.3 -current.  I believe that a binary snapshot
of -current for the i386 is forthcoming, so you might give it a try
when it appears.

 > I am trying to install 1.3 onto a PCMCIA hd in a laptop.
 > 
 > I want to move the PCMCIA card to other machines, with NetBSD on it.
 > 
 > The floppy installer detects some PCMCIA device (I can only see it flash
 > by for a second before the menu comes up)
 > 
 > but it dosen't see the card as a vaid HD target for install.
 > 
 > Is there info about this??
 > -- 
 > Andrew Diller
 > Sys Admin
 > Graduate School of Education
 > University of Pennsylvania
 > dillera@gse.upenn.edu
 > 215-573-5423

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