to save yourself a lot of trouble id reccomend installing debian on another box, upgrade the kernel, take the hd out and slap it in the athlon.
nate On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote: j.l.go >Hi! j.l.go > We're buying an Athlon based system. I'd like to use Debian with it, j.l.go >but it looks as if that won't be as simple as advertised :) I am aware that j.l.go >I'd need a newer kernel (2.2.13ish) in order to boot. I can possibly do that j.l.go >now (else, I'll beg for one :D), even though it's gonna be too big for 1 j.l.go >disk (I recall someone mentioned that). I just wanted to know if there are j.l.go >any other things one should be aware of in this installation procedure. j.l.go >Ideally, I'd like to install over ftp. I'd really like to go into potato j.l.go >straight away, as the graphics card will not be supported by XF86 3.3.2 j.l.go >(?). So far, I have installed slink and apt-get upgrade-ed it as necessary. j.l.go >Is there a better way? j.l.go > j.l.go > Has someone got any "success stories" about Debian and Athlon? j.l.go > j.l.go > Thanks, j.l.go > Jose j.l.go >-- j.l.go >Jose L Gomez Dans PhD student j.l.go > Radar & Communications Group j.l.go > Department of Electronic Engineering j.l.go > University of Sheffield UK j.l.go > j.l.go > j.l.go >-- j.l.go >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null j.l.go > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 9:51am up 102 days, 21:31, 1 user, load average: 1.79, 1.64, 1.61
