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Re: Upgrading from slink on 486 w/ 32 Mb ram and 3c509tp NIC



On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 05:52:46PM -0500, pinecone wrote:
> Hi Everyone:
> 
> Slink loads and finds the nic.  I want to upgrade the version and get a 
> text mode gui with an internal external mail capapbility for the house.  
> The sarge hardware probe doesn't find the nic though. Debian site 
> doesn't seem to have the old version iso's for a gradual upgrade 
> process. Anyone able to advise?
Hi pinecone,
slink, woot! what kernel modules did it use for slink? I guess its not
usb or pci? you may need to go to the console during some installer
stage and 'modprobe' or 'insmod' the correct kenel modules. so,
'ctrl-alt-f1' have fun!
hth,
Kev
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