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From: Joe Shevland <J_Shevland@Turnaround.com.au>
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To: "Douglas K. Rand" <rand@meridian-enviro.com>
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Subject: Re: Xircom 10/100 + 56kbps PCMCIA cards
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"Douglas K. Rand" wrote:
> 
> I added the FreeBSD-Xircom list to the CC

Cheers, I thought thats where I sent it :)
 
> Joe> Actually, one thing I'm trying to do (and haven't had that much
> Joe> experience with) is booting off the 3.1-RELEASE boot floppies to
> Joe> install 3.1-STABLE onto my laptop [via the Xircom driver].
> 
> Joe> Any ideas on the best way to do this?
> 
> Well, visit http://www.cdrom.com and buy the CD.  :)

The beasts as cdrom.com have sent my 2.2.8 and 3.1 CD's into limbo
somewhere :( I've since cancelled my subscription but will renew it now
I've finished moving house for the 5000th time. Geez I hate moving...
 
> Not the answer you were probably hoping for, but what you propose
> sounds difficult. You'll need pccardd running, a working
> /etc/pccard.conf, and the xe driver to work. Probably dificult to do
> on a boot floppy. 
> If you can't install via CD, I'd do the instalation via PPP or a
> parallel port IP connection. If you are installing onto a slice of
> your disk, and the other slice has Windoss and a couple of hundred MB
> free, download the distribution to c:\release and install from there.

This sounds highly sneaky :) I've got a spare 5 gig or so on the Windoze
partition so I should be OK. Now, what is the exact format for that
c:\release directory? Or do I pull down everything under, say,
3.1-STABLE, into this directory exactly as it appears on the FTP server?

Cheers,
Joe.


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