Again, there is no component for "installation floppies", so I picked the first component. Red Hat 5.2 install on a notebook via NFS and FTP tried to probe for ISA/PCI ethernet cards after it probed for and correctly identified the PCMCIA card. It stuck on asking for an ethernet driver, even though PCMCIA had been specified. I was unable to continue the install.
Due to the size the distribution has grown too, there unfortunately never will be a floppy install method. For the pcmcia problem, we need to know the brand of pcmcia controller chipset and brand/model of pcmcia network card you are attempting to use for the installation.
Oh, I'm not looking for a floppy installation method. I was just saying I didn't find a "Component" on the bug entry page that was appropriate to the boot and supp floppies used to get to the FTP or NFS installs. I gather "installer" is the right one. There are so many components, it might make sense to break the list up into package names (grouped together) and non-package items like installer and atboot. The latter are otherwise hard to find if you don't know their names. I have since discovered that the pcmcia network card was not supported in 5.2, and is still buggy in pcmcia-3.0.6. It's the new 3Com 10/100 XJACK card, 3CXFE575BT. Probably it would have worked with a good card. A better error message might have taken me more directly to the source of the problem, however.
Yes, unfortunately cardbus cards are not yet fully supported by the pcmcia-cs package. Development is being done so hopefully it will not be long. We are working to make the installer more descriptive when problems due occur. Thank you for the suggestion.