Getting an old boot disk

2001-06-11 Thread Matt Gerginski
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

debian on a 486

2001-06-10 Thread Matt Gerginski
Hi. I want to put debian on a 486 that I recently got from my school. They were giving away "obsolete" computers, so I grabbed 5 of them. I just have one small problem: I can't get any of the rescue.bin disks to boot on the computer. It boots fine in my newer computer, so its not the disk. To

dhcp

2001-06-09 Thread Matt Gerginski
Hi. I just did a fesh install of debian. On the documentation on the site, it said that in the "Configure the Network" portion of the installation, i would be asked whether to use dhcp or not. This never happened. Debian is working fine now except for my ethernet card. I have a driver installe