On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 01:42:18PM -0400, Daniel Stehm wrote: > Hey guys, having a problem here. I have a 486, 12 megs of RAM, 480 > megs on hard-drive, floppy (3 1/2), and a (gasp) 5 1/2 drive. I want > to get ANY linux distro on it that I can, (wishing for debian) I dont > care too much about packages, I just want some form of linux on here. > I really dont want to take CD-Rom out of this and hook it up to the > 486's motherboard, etc; etc; or connect them etc; Im hoping, if at all > possible, from what ive heard its possible to install Linux onto a > computer using floppies! Thats what im hoping to do, install Linux > onto this 486 using floppies! If someone would mind telling me how to > go about doing that, id appreciate it. E-mail is atomicx@exis.net > Thanks alot I rolled out my first Debian installation on a similar configuration, though I had about half the disk. What are you planning on *doing* with the box -- it's pretty anaemic buy current standards. There is an installation option for, IIRC, slink, which requires a boot floppy and download image. If you can get a network connection (existing DOS/Windows OS, Tom's Root Boot, LinuxCare Bootable Business Card), you can D/L the image to the HD. It's then used in installation. I'd partition you HD as follows: / 48 MB swap 36-48 MB * /tmp 16 MB /var 48 MB /usr 300 MB /home 20 MB * High relative to physical RAM, but low given typical task requirements. You don't have a lot of leeway, but this should give you a basic sever setup with a few development packages (enough to build a kernel), and possibly even X, though you'd be better of putting cliet support on this box an running the display elsewhere. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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