Re: debian on a 486
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 09:30:01PM -0400, Matt Gerginski wrote:
| 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.
I did an installed Debian on a 486SX-25 with 8 MB RAM. I only had the
CDs, no floppies and the system couldn't boot from the CD. Also, DOS
didn't have any CD drivers so I couldn't use loadlin (though I guess I
could have copied loadlin and the kernel to the HD as someone else
suggested).
My solution was to pull the HD out and put it in the newer workstation
I have and install from CD there. Once done I put the HD back in the
486 and it has worked great since then.
(BTW the CD drive was borrowed from another machine just for the
install on that box)
-D
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