Re: [vox-tech] Laptop Install
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Re: [vox-tech] Laptop Install
- Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Laptop Install
- From: "Mark K. Kim" <mkkiMAPSm@ucdavis.edu>
- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 12:53:05 -0800
- References: 3AA68B9E.3020602@afes.com
If you have an IDE CDROM, and if you can boot off of it, then you don't
need a PCMCIA boot disk.
If your CDROM isn't IDE (ie - PCMCIA) then I *think* you need a PCMCIA
boot disk.
Generally, you don't.
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> although i suppose that some bozo out there designed a laptop with
> cdrom card interface. probably compaq;
The last Compaq laptop I worked on used an IDE CDROM.
> however, if you want card services (like a modem, net card or some
> laptops use this interface for floppies), then you'll want to use the
> pcmcia boot disk.
Well, you wouldn't need a PCMCIA boot disk if you had a PCMCIA floppy
drive, 'cause the assumption is that you can access the floppy drive in
the first place to boot off of it. You also wouldn't need a PCMCIA boot
disk to get access to the modem... unless you were planning on installing
linux over a modem connection :P
-Mark
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