The only distribution I attempted to install on my computer was RedHat . I've worked with versions 4.1, 4.2, and 5.0. I ran into problems partitioning my hard disk, because it seems that Transmonde formats its hard drives as FAT32, which is not supported by FIPS, the only freeware non-destructive hard disk partitioner that I know of. This is not a huge problem, because as I'll show you below, you can get pcmcia-cs working once you have Linux installed on your computer. I wasn't able to get the RPM of pcmcia-cs to work, so I tried grabbing the original tarfile and compiling it myself, and that worked fine.
Type make config .
You can probably accept the defaults given for all the options if you don't know what you're doing. Type make all, then make install . Reboot your computer. I don't have any CardBus or Zoomed Video cards to test, so I can't tell you whether they work or not. In order to mount your FAT32 partition under Linux, you'll need to be running kernel 2.0.34 or higher.