Re: minimal installation
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 01:32:29 +0200,
Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote in message
<[🔎] 20030914233229.GB4842@aokiconsulting.com>:
> 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.
>
> :(
..http://damnsmalllinux.org/ ?
> > 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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