PCMCIA install / Network install

[Richard Morrell]

Thanks Colin,

240 building now off network. So far so good with laptops, I've got installs in
the lab on:

IBM Thinkpad A20m
IBM Thinkpad 600e
Compaq Evo N1005v
Dell Latitude CPi
IBM Thinkpad T40

Ubuntu is also the first ever distro to find IBM onboard Lucent winmodems and
enable them. Nice to see.


Quoting Colin Watson <cjwatson at canonical.com>:

> On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 12:06:33PM +0100, Richard Morrell wrote:
> > However I have a couple of tiny laptops by IBM - Thinkpad 240's that I
> > use in the car on AC/DC converter when I am travelling. Both currently
> > run dual boot 2K Pro and CentOS 3.x. They're really cool tiny little
> > laptops ideal for travelling and I'd love to get Ubuntu onto them.
> >
> > So I have options, network install or a driver disk supporting PCMCIA
> > as the 240 has no drives and external IBM floppy or CD.
> > Superbootmanager gets me to the boot off HDD and floppy but of course
> > doesnt get me to PCMCIA nor did I expect it to.
> >
> > Can I do an install over http on the network here or via FTP from a
> > local box ? Does such a driver disk exist or do I have to go think
> > about making one ?
>
> We don't provide any floppy installation methods at the moment (although
> I'll probably think about it for Hoary, as it's been requested a fair
> bit). If you can netboot these systems, though, you can install Ubuntu
> that way. Look in
> /ubuntu/dists/warty/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ in the
> archive for the images: you'll want either vmlinux and initrd.gz if you
> already have a PXE boot setup available, or pxeboot.tar.gz if you don't.
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]
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