Success!!

Steps to installing Corel Linux until paride.o and spcd.o drives are
supported on the Corel Linux install disk.  (I am assuming that the fact the
necessary components are not in the install CD...  I even had to create the
devices in /dev when the pcd.o file was installed correctly.

1. Install Debian from floppy!!  Follow the instructions contained in
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install to install using floppies.
You will need the resc1440.bin or resc1440tecra.bin, drv1440.bin or
drv1440tecra.bin, and all the base14-*.bin files rawriten to disk.

2. After installing use dselect (you could probably use dpkg-ftp and other
things as well but I am explaining the way I was successful) to load of the
Corel Linux CD-ROM.  There is one issue with deselect not being from the
Corel distribution originally, it won't know how to handle the
dists/corelllinux-1.0/corel/binary-i386 directory.  Because of this I joined
the corel directory as the non-US equivalent to debian.

3. Install the files that make corel different than debain  from the list
provided by Joey Hess @ Debian in the Weekly News.  These files are:
    autofs_3.1.3-2_i386.deb
    gpm_1.14-3.deb
    login_980403-0.3.2_i386.deb
    passwd_980403-0.3.2_i386.deb
    kde-corel-admin_1.1-1254.deb
    kde-corel_1.1-1254.deb
    kernel-headers-2.2.12_corel.1.0_i386.deb
    kernel-source-2.2.12_corel.1.0_all.deb
    motifnls_2.1-5.deb (This is the unstable version, one rev out of date. -
JH)
    navigator4_4.7-4_i386.deb (Corel specific. - JH)
    printfilter_1.2.deb (Corel specific, may be a ported redhat package. -
JH)
    qmail-corel_1.03-1254.deb (I didn't install this because I use
sendmail - JY)
    qt-corel_1.44O-6_slink.deb (Well marked as corel specific. - JH)
    samba-doc_2.0.5a-1_all.deb (The unstable version, 4 revs out of date. -
JH)
    secure-su_980403-0.3.2_i386.deb (The unstable version, a little out of
date. - JH)
Plus a bunch of packages from xfree86-1, with version number 3.3.5-1.0.1.
These are the unstable version of X, backported to slink. Corel
fixed the FBDev problem anyone who backports X to slink must fix.

NOTE:  dselect will not install libraries from the corel folder in the
proper sequence, so I had to run dselect, write down the problems, dpkg -i
{deb file} the problems, and re-run dselect.  I admit there is probably a
better way and if you find it let me know in case I rebuild the laptop down
the road (or should I say when).

Now there is only fine tuning left to do.  Hope this help some of you out
there!
John Yorke