im having a problem...

[MNuTz]

Hi all, ive just helped a mate build his first pc and he gave me his old one. Its a compaq system that he bought cheap from his work.

Ive decided to switch the 20gb hdd out and put a spare 80gb and use it as a basic webserver. From other suggestions on here and me wanting to get into linux i decided on a Debian install. I tried to install onto the drive and it came up with errors, so i put the hdd in a tower of mine and it installed fine apart from not being able to install the network card drivers.

Ive put the HDD back into the compaq system thinking i could setup the network card with that and i should be ready to set the server up. However its not reading the CD properly and it keeps coming up with the following message:

Some PCMCIA hardware needs special resource configuration to work, and can cause the computer to freeze otherwise. For example, some Dell laptops need "exclude port 0x800-0xff" to be specified here. These options will be added to /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. See the installation manual or the PCMCIA HOWTO for more info.

It then asks me tto enter one if needed.

This is where im stuck. The tower install worked fine and never came up with such a message, its not the CD or the CD drive. That leads me to think that maybe compaq use special hardware that can cause trouble like this.

Im really stuck and would appreciate any help.

PS, no i cant use the tower instead, its the g/f's