Re: [Trinux-talk] Howto make a bootable CD (ISO) with PCMCIA support?

[David G. M. <dgl...@gm...>]

>From: "Matthew Franz" <mat...@ya...>
>To: "David GLAUDE Mailing" <dgl...@gm...>
>Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 6:09 AM
>Subject: Re: [Trinux-talk] Howto make a bootable CD (ISO) with PCMCIA
support?


Summary: I try to boot Trinux ISO CD on a laptop => need to modify the CD.

> Here's something to try with the exiting CD-ROM but I think.
> Unfortunately, there are still a lot of
> problems with CD-booting on laptops (especially if you
> don't have a floppy drive).

Booting Knoppix ISO CD on my laptop work nicely.

> I believe the pcmcia module packages are on the CD-ROM
> -- can't remember exactly where off the top of my
> head, but they should be with all the others. Anyway,
> after it loads -- go the the directory and a do
>
> #pkgadd pcmcia-xirc2ps
> #pkgadd pcmcia-coremods
> #pkgadd pcmcia-bin

Strange, the two first are on the CD,
but not pcmcia-bin (wich is only on the pcmcia floppy)...

> then
> # /etc/init.d/pcmcia    this should definitely get the
> modules loaded and kick off card manager

/etc/init.d does not contain pcmcia...
Maybe because I don't have pcmcia-bin.

> > I was wondering if I just need to mount the iso
> > (losetup on /dev/loop0),
> > remove the image of the floppy from the original iso,
> I don't think that will work, because I think it ISOs
> are only read only.

Yes, but I mount it, tar it, untar somewhere else,
then work on that copy to modify it.

Work in progress, I will keep you updated if I have a working solution.