Can't you connect the 486 machine to a newer machine via serial or parallel
cable? Perhaps with Ethernet?
> Well I finally solved the "man" problem. Thanks to all that replied (esp.
> to Paul Smith and Ron Rademaker who gave this newbie some great tips on
> commands to use while installing via floppy). Folks it is possible to
> install via floppy but, as the manual does say, it is NOT recommended. You
> have to download man from the debian ftp site or mirror sites, save it onto
> floppy, transfer it to the linux machine and then install it. Aside from
> this program, you also need to download and install groff and jgroff
> (however, when I installed jgroff, it replaced groff ! ).
>
> I have no choice right now but to use floppies as the machine I'm using for
> Debian is an ancient 486 with no cd-rom, no internet capabilities, a
> whopping 16 megs of ram, and an astounding 268 megs of hd space =P. Debian
> does run well on it though. I am using a b&w G3 with a high speed
> connection to download all the files and so far I've kept my sanity. The
> upswing to all this is I got a chance to actually play around with the
> commands on Linux, learn how to install basic packages, and get some new
> life into an old machine. If you want to learn linux via a baptism of fire,
> do it the way I did.
>
> thanks again
>
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