Re: minimal installation
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:20:38PM -0400, Ashley Graham wrote:
> hello friends,
>
> i am trying to get a debian system on an old laptop i have copped from a
> friend; it is rather old, but i couldn't give up the chance to install linux
> on something else.
>
> the system is a compaq contura 430cx, it has a floppy drive ONLY. no cd-rom,
> no network (it had a pcmcia modem thing, but i lost it), not even speakers.
Is this PCMCIA connected floppy small PC?
> i have tried the regular debian floppy installation, but it fails while
> loading the ramdisk (no kernel panic, it simply stops). i tried the regular
> kernel, the compact, and the bf24.
:(
> i have tried other floppy-based distro's, but they're floppy, and only
> floppy, most don't allow access to the HD, and the others are either rescue
> disks (which i don't need), or router/firewalls (which i also don't need).
Did you manually mount like:
# cd /
# mkdir target
# mount /dev/hda target
> i also tried a slackware floppy installation, but received a kernel
> panic:out of memory error, along with a hang.
>
> google keeps on popping up floppy-based distros, and none(that i've seen)
> mention using the floppy to turn the laptop/pc into a workstation.
>
> in case you were wondering, i am planning on turing it into an easily
> portable demo for friends, and a simple workstation for myself, something
> easy to carry around notes, jot down ideas, simple stuff - nothing to grand.
>
> any help would be greately appreciated.
If you have Serial or Parallel port on PC and another Linux PC, you
should be able to connect to it through PPP. Then you have netaccess.
Osamu
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