Re: Re: lenny on x86
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:35:20AM -0600, Stackpole, Chris wrote:
> I also made the discovery that one of the laptops that all the hardware
> appears to work on, is a different model and it has 98 on it! Sadly,
> this one doesn't have a lan connection, nor wireless, nor a USB port,
> nor a CDRom drive. Just a floppy, a parallel port, serial port, and a
> PCMCIA slot. I do have a wireless PCMCIA adapter that works, so I spent
> last night splitting drivers and other files to fit on a floppy to copy
> over to it. If I can get 98 on the internet then I should be able to use
> the earlier suggestion of www.goodbye-microsoft.com.
Unfortunatly, the installer can't use ppp on a serial link. However, if
you get an earlier version of debian working, you can use a null-modem
cable and set up ppp networking between the laptop and a box that has
internet access. You can even access the other box's cdrom via NFS of
the PPP link. Been there, done that.
> closet (best match I have to the old Pentium line), plugged the drive in
> via a USB adapter, and installed Lenny to the drive. Everything worked
> as far as I could tell. It booted at least. So then I plugged the drive
> into the laptop, reassembled, and on boot up I get a GRUB message that
> just sticks there. After thinking about it, I never updated GRUB. The
What grub message? You should get the grub menu. If you don't, get the
grub-disk floppy and use that. Read the grub manual and howto; you can
edit a menu entry or use the grub command line.
> install system probably installed it as SDx and in the laptop it
> probably just shows up as HDx. I was thinking I would take the laptop
> apart again and try to fix my error. It is a PITA to take them apart,
> but after doing it so many times last night I think I have it down.
> Besides, the mouse is already busted so not a big deal if I break
> something else, right? So my questions are what suggestions do you guys
> have? Are GRUB and fstab the only things I need to update? Installing
> i386 with the 2.6 kernel to a P2 shouldn't have problems transferring to
> a Pentium, correct? Is there a better kernel I should install? What are
> the chances that something like this http://main.gnulabs.org/?q=node/3
> will work?
Try to get grub itself working before you bother taking the laptop
apart.
Doug.
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