On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:46:58PM -0400, Matt Gerginski wrote:
| Hi, its me again, the kid with the 486. The newest boot disk that i can
| get to boot on the 486 is from 1.3.1. the installation was good,
| except, i found out there were no dhcp utilities shipped with 1.3.1.
| That was the whole reason i needed to boot with a debian disk, so that i
| could get that to work. My question now is: if i have a dhcpcd.deb
| package, how can i install it on the computer using dpkg-deb?? Idealy,
| I'd like to somehow be able to just install 2.0 or above, but that cant
| happen until i can boot from the disks. I was going to transfer the
| hard drive into my big computer and install there, then switch the hard
| drive, but then the network card would not be configured for the 486,
| which brings me back to whrre i am now. any help would be greatly
| appreciated. thanks. --mattgerg
Well, configuring the NIC is really, really, simple (in my
experiences); much easier than installing an old distro that is
missing stuff you need. Here are some more details from my install
via hd switching :
Modern machine :
Duron 750
128MB RAM
Linksys LNE100TX PCI NIC (tulip)
Antique machine :
Intel 486sx 25
8MB RAM
NetGear FA-????? ISA NIC (NE2000 clone)
Both systems have identical /etc/hosts and /etc/resolve. The
/etc/interfaces differs only in that the newer system specifies the
older system as the gateway. I did an install with the hd in the new
machine, then switched it to the old one. I then editied
/etc/modutils/aliases and changed
alias eth0 tulip
to
alias eth0 ne
and added
options ne io=330 irq=7
or something like that (I can look it up at home if you want the info
-- basically I had to tell it what the base IO address was, and
something else (maybe IRQ) because ISA PnP doesn't work very well so I
disabled it on the NIC).
HTH,
-D
