Backpack CD-ROM with 2.1

[Jim Franklin]

Hi Wayne,
  I don't know what documentation comes with "Essential Debian" but the
real world debian documentation is great, up to date and lottsa other
good stuff.  Dig around in metalab for hardware info, check out debian
installation docs at debian.org,  for real time help use IRC #debian
chat room.  Some misc URL are below and good places to start looking.  I
don't know anything about backpack CDroms so this is the best I can
offer.

http://metalab.unc.edu/splash.html
http://metalab.unc.edu/paulc/
http://www.debian.org/~elphick/ddp/
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/
http://www.debian.org/
http://www.debian.org/~hp/tutorial/debian-tutorial.html/index.html


Jim

Wayne Earl wrote:
> 
> Hey all...I've been asking around with this one, and was wondering if
> anyone could help me out here.
> 
> I've got an old TI laptop that runs Linux beautifully (Had RH on it for
> almost two years now). Having discovered Debian's elegance, I am working
> to purge Red Hat Linux from my home boxen. Previously, I would install
> RH via a Backpack external cdrom, but I can't seem to find support for
> this included in 2.1 (I've got a copy of "Essential Debian" from
> Cheapbytes). Is it possible to insmod the bpcd.o module at install time,
> or is there a boot disk available that addresses this issue? Is there a
> better way? Suggestions will be much appreciated.
> 
> Wayne