tlug: The Debian Potato

["Frank Bennett (=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCJVUlaSVzJS8kWSVNJUMlSBsoQg==?= )" <bennett@example.com>]

During my visit to Tokyo, I picked up a Toshiba Satellite 110CS
that was going real cheap at the little DAV Outlet shop beyond Yamagiwa
and T-Zone.  Perfect machine for my wife's email terminal.

I'm trying to install Debian on this machine.  I've got the rescue disks
and the driver disks from the i386 disks section of the Potato tree, and
they start up fine.  The thing has no internal LAN card or CD ROM, so I
need to configure PCMCIA before I can proceed with the install.  The
installer has an option for that, so after mounting the root partition for
the install, I select "Configure PCMCIA" and step through the menus. After
the last menu, the installer complains that it has not found
/sbin/cardmgr.  I checked, it's not lying;  the install disk hasn't got a
card services daemon on it.  Grrrrr.

I then did gzip -d on the root image, and got a big file that ought to be
a filesystem image.  But I can't mount it loopback as ext2 or minix or
msdos.  I'm kind of stuck for an efficient way forward, apart from
building a clone of the root image from scratch; and that's not going to
happen while I'm in control of my own time.

Anyone run into this problem before?

Cheers,
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Frank G Bennett, Jr         @@
Faculty of Law, Nagoya Univ () email: bennett@example.com
Tel: +81[(0)52]789-2239     ()

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