Here's the situation: I am a web developer. I have a PowerMac 8500 at home, on which I do most of my development. My ISP is a pain to deal with regarding CGI scripts and stuff, so I decided to set up an intranet at home to do my development on. I got a used Packard Bell 486 machine with a floppy drive, and put an SMC Ethernet card in it.
I was able after a huge hassle to install the base Debian distribution on the PC. However, because I had downloaded the image files on my Mac, I couldn't mount them; I had had to transfer them on a PC disk to the PC and run rawrite on them there. Consequently, I had to use the 1.2 Mb driver and rescue images (because the mac couldn't write the larger files to the PC formatted disks thanks to the space that the formatting takes up). During the Linux installation, I got the the driver installation phase. I was unable to install drivers for either my Logitech Bus Mouse, or my Ethernet card, due to dependencies in those drivers to object files that the installer apparently couldn't find (misc.o for the mouse, something like 8303.o for the Ethernet card). I realize that I could get the Kernel sources and recompile them; however, the source files for the kernal (not to mention the gcc binary .deb package) are too big to transfer via floppy, and (obviously) I can't transfer the files via Ethernet. What are my options for getting this working? I have a 14.4 modem installed in the PC, but there is no modem entry in /dev. I don't have a CD ROM (nor do I have money right now to purchase the Debian CD). Until I get the Ethernet working, this setup is pretty much useless to me. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
