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Re: potato on 486

dman wrote:


On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:52:01AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
| dman wrote:
| > On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 04:06:21PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
| > | Osamu Aoki wrote:
[...]
| > | > If so network install is alternative.  Just 2 floppies
| > | > is all you need.
| > | | > | What's the best reference you know for that? | > | > Get the rescue and root disks (I use idepci for net installs). Boot 
| > it.  Specify network config (dhcp, static, whatever).  Point to
| > debian.org for downloads.
| | Actually I still haven't been able to connect to my ISP from Linux. 

What ISP?  What sort of connection - dial-up, dsl cable?



A local ISP - ultrasw.com - dial-up - it's an NT server.
The username, password handshake seems to work and I immediately get "Requested Service Denied". I have tried minicom and as many different pppconfig combinations as I can think of. That may not mean much since this is my first attempt at each of these things. 




| > It is really quite simple.  Simpler, even, than getting an old
| > CDROM to boot. | > | > The other easy alternative is to pull the harddrive, put it in a 
| > new machine, install, put it back.  I did this on the 486 I
| > installed on (didn't have fast network for that one either).
| | | That's probably the easiest for now. I still will have to deal with | that CDROM after the install. 

Dealing with odd hardware is easier after a complete system is
installed.  The installer portion is quite a bare-minimum (sometimes
less) system so that it actually fits on the floppy.
I was guessing that but their module floppy does have quite a few different modules on it.
| Actually the Caldera diskettes turn out to have a whole bunch of CDROM | drivers. I haven't found one that works yet. But we'll see.
Is caldera debian-based? 


I don't think so.  They call their distro OpenLinux.


If so it might not be so bad to start with
their installer but redirect it to a plain debian system.



The CD I am trying to read is Debian install.


Thanks,

Paul
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