Re: debian on a 486
said Matt Gerginski (on 2001-06-10),
> Hi. I want to put debian on a 486 that I recently got from my school.
> They were giving away "obsolete" computers, so I grabbed 5 of them. I
> just have one small problem: I can't get any of the rescue.bin disks to
> boot on the computer. It boots fine in my newer computer, so its not
> the disk. To get around that, I used an old slackware bootdisk, and
> then loaded the debian root installation disk. It worked great for
> everything except for the network configuration and some kernel
> modules. I tried to do the neccasary repairs myself, but it seems the
> only way to get this thing working right is to use the debian boot
> disk. I need to find a boot disk that works, compile a kernel of my own
> for the boot disk, or find an older debian boot disk and hope it works
> with the machine and still works with the debian installation process.
> Any suggestions or help??? Thanks a ton.
>
> --mattgerg
>
how much ram do they have? the lowmem disk is gone from debian 2.2, so
you can't install it on a machine with less than 8MB ram. you could
install 2.1 and apt-get dist-upgrade to 2.2.
i've installed debian 2.2 and dist-upgraded to unstable on a bunch of 486s
with >8MB ram with no problems.
geordie.
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