On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:11:52AM -0400, Matthew Tedder wrote: > On Tuesday 18 June 2002 01:17 am, John wrote: > > Oleg wrote: > > >On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:09 am, Daniel Freedman wrote: > > >>On Mon, Jun 17, 2002, Matthew Tedder wrote: > > >>>I'd like to install Debian on an old 8MB i386 with ~500MB of disk space. > > >>>Is this possible? > > > > > >Why? AFAIK there are organizations giving out i486s and Pentiums for free. > > > If that is true, and also because, e.g. Wal-Mart sells reasonably modern > > > new Lindows computers for $300 [1], i386s are simply not worth your time. > > Yes.. I run my own small software company and have better computers by far > plus a lab full of LTSP-based thin-clients. But all those machines are being > used to capacity and I want to experiment with Debian. > > I do have an old PowerPC Macintosh with 64MB of RAM and about two small SCSI > drives. Maybe I should use it. > > The i386 wouldn't seem to boot off the floppy using the root.bin image. root.bin? The root.bin contains the root filesystem, and is not intended (AFAIK) to be bootable. rescue.bin is probably the one you wanted (you'll still need root.bin afterwards) HTH -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs. -- Fran Lebowitz
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