Re: Debian on a 486sx thru PCMCIA NIC

[Gerlando Falauto <iurly@writeme.com>]

> >get it off the network (either from a local PC or the Internet) thru a
> >3Com Etherlink III PCMCIA card (3c589).
> >What version should I use and HOW?
>
> Console system ???

Right, of course!

> WOODY is OK, but for this Laptop you need the bf24 Floppys.
> Please be aware, you need mny time to install the Base...
> (Arround 13 Hours...)
>
> After this, I suggest you to recompile a 2.2.20 Kernel because
> it is very light.

Why should I use the 2.4 kernel though? Can't I just use an older
Debian version?

> But I suggest you to look at <http://www.ebay.com/> for a memory
> card with 8 or 16 MBytes because you have only 4 MBytes inside
> and 4 MBytes as card (I think)

Right (4+4), but I'm not quite into buying stuff for this piece of
archaeology... ;-)

I was able to boot the machine using "tomsrtbt" and that did bring up the
ethernet card.
How can I use that as the bootdisk (so to enable network access)
and still use the debian installer?

Thank you,
Gerlando