Re: Installing Debian on 486
Hi,
If your 486 has a ethernet card, you can put cdrom in another machine and
using 2 floppies you can put debian in it. I have done it with slink on a
486 with less than 100mb harddisk
Best of luck
Suresh
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Suresh Kumar.R Email: suresh@mycampus.com
Dept of Electronics & Communication
College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695 016
INDIA
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, 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
>
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