On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Robert Ruzbacky wrote: > > Hi. I want to put debian on a 486 that I recently got from my school. > ..... > > > for the boot disk, or find an older debian boot disk and hope it works > > with the machine and still works with the debian installation process. > > You could try using an old version of debian like debian 1.3 (Bo). I think > you can get it in the archives....it should work fine for a 486. Mine came
I'd suggest ver2.0 (get it from archive.debian.org) for any floppy based intallation on a resource limited box. There is a low mem install (4Meg or better), the boot floppy uses the slow-safe-and-stupid driver (it was the only one that would work on the 486 I installed a couple of weeks ago), there are static versions of apt-get and dpkg available for it (easy upgrade path), and it doesn't need much HD space for the base system. - Bruce
