Re: debian on a 486
I had the same problem with my old laptop. Try booting from the msdos
partition (if you still have it). Here is the info on how to do it:
http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/install
section 6.3.1
Basically, put loadlin.exe, linux (linux kernel), root.bin on c:\,
then reboot, hit F8 as soon as msdos starts to stop it from opening
any other programs, run
loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin
I had lots of problems getting all the files in a non-corrupted state
to the laptop, as I had to do everything with floppies, winzip and
multidiskspanning. If something doesn't work, try redownloading and
using a new disk to transfer.
----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Gerginski <mattgerg@users.sourceforge.net>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 9:30 PM
Subject: debian on a 486
> 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
>
>
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