HD Install :: PCMCIA Install

How do I install DSL to a PCMCIA Card?

I have an IBM 105mb PCMCIA Hard Disk Drive and I would like to put DSL on it to transfer from an old Winbook XL Laptop (which boots DSL just fine from the CD) to a Fujitsu Point 510 tablet which only has PCMCIA and Floppy (no USB).

I'm new to Linux (Jon - day 2) so I have little clue what I'm doing. Any help would be appreciated.

I don't think this is an easy task especially on older computers using boot floppies.
The pcmcia modules would need to be placed into minirt24.gz and the linuxrc adjusted to insmod and use them. This would most likely be a two floppy disk set to boot from then find and load the compressed image file which would be from a poorman's install on the pcmcia device.This is a project that I keep thinking I should attempt as alot of older laptops have floppy and pcmcia drives. We could then forgo the harddrive and use boot floppy + CF/PCMCIA.

Of course you can use any pcmcia hard drive, or pcmcia adapter with CF as storage for a cdrom or other booted DSL.

My idea to solve this would be install (or copy) DSL to the PCMCIA from the Winbook and create a boot floppy that says "look at the PCMCIA card" but again, I don't have the skills to put this together.

Are you up to the task? Peer pressure. DO IT! DO IT!

Please, I beg you.

OK. I am looking into this. Stay tuned.

Tuned. Thank you.

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