Woody/Unstable on a Dell Dimension 4600

[Marcus Crafter <crafterm@managesoft.com>]

Hi All,

Hope all is well.

FYI, I've just managed to get woody and unstable up and running on these
new Dell Dimension 4600 boxes.

They have new Intel PRO/100 network cards on them which I couldn't get to
work with the e100 driver in any kernel less than 2.4.21.

To get to unstable, I installed an extremely small woody system with the
basesystem and gcc onboard so that I could build 2.4.21 to get networking
going. Once that was up, I modified /etc/apt/sources.list to point to
unstable and dist-upgraded.

If anyone wants to install woody/unstable on these machines, I've got some 
pre-built kernel image/header packages available at
http://people.debian.org/~crafterm/dell/dimension4600/ to make life easier :)

(Note, I had to do the same to get unstable running on my Inspiron 8500 as
well, due to the broadcom network card driver).

Hope that helps anyone that attempts to install Debian on these machines.

Cheers,

Marcus


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