Re: Debian on a 486sx thru PCMCIA NIC
Am 2003-11-03 00:10:55, schrieb Gerlando Falauto:
>> 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?
My own experience was, that many older Toshibas are not working
with 2.2xx STANDARD-Kernels. - Selfcompiled works great.
So, if you have problems with Hardware detection and somthing
like this, use a more recent Kernel and change it after...
Oh yes, I had to boot with loadlin.exe the installation on a T1950CT
Try it and you get a compressin error... because a loadlin.exe bug.
Download the updated loadlin_...deb and all is working fine...
>> 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... ;-)
Why ? I have bought a 16Mbyte Card for my Laptop for 6 € + 4,20 €
Shipping + 3,15 € for the Bank = 13,35 € And it works great.
Then I have gotten a cheep PCMCIA-USB-Adapter v1.1 for around 10 €
and now I can use a 120 GByte HD on my old T1950CT ;-)
I need it, if I go to Clients ans mus make services...
...and dont like to download everthin from the Net !
(I have the whole Debian-Mirror)
>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?
It is not possibel !
I know tomsrtbt and it is NOT Debian.
If you boot the Debian-Floppy, and you get the PCMCIA-Card go to the
second console and type:
ifconfig eth0
You will see, that the Card is up and running. (using bf2.4)
E.g.:
eth0 Protokoll:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:60:B0:5E:B1:E5
inet Adresse:192.168.1.71 Bcast:192.168.1.95 Maske:255.255.255.224
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6018561 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5801700 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:97533 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:100
RX bytes:2169679680 (2.0 GiB) TX bytes:1882092517 (1.7 GiB)
Interrupt:11 Basisadresse:0xfce0
Now type:
route -n
and you will see, that there is a route missing.
Kernel IP Routentabelle
Ziel Router Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
On a running Debian Box I have:
Kernel IP Routentabelle
Ziel Router Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.64 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.224 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.65 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
So there is a bug on the Floppy...
Now Add the Route to the Bootfloppy by:
route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0
route -n
Kernel IP Routentabelle
Ziel Router Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
Now go back to your console one and continue the installation
>Thank you,
>Gerlando
Greetings
Michelle
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