Re: K6 and Debian

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A simple network

David Stein writes: > I'm new to Linux and with what I've seen so far (1 night downloading, 1 > night > installing) I'm impressed. Is it possible to hook 3 or more PC's together > using their serial port with Linux in order to make a simple network? Where > do > you get such cables?

Serial port IRQ strangeness

I have a Debian 1.1 machine with 4 serial ports, each on its own IRQ. I edited /etc/rc.boot/0setserial to configure the appropriate IRQs. Question #1: At boot, when /etc/rc.boot/0setserial runs, it complains "no such device" for each of the devices. If I do the setserial as /etc/rc2.d/S14setser

Replicating a Debian system

Here's what I came up with to "clone" a Debian system with the aid of a CD writer. If you don't have a CD writer, you may be able to use a Jaz drive or regular hard drive for the purpose. 1. Create tar files of each filesystem. Use tar's "--one-file-system" option to facilitate this. 2. Put the

Floppy won't boot with internal cache enabled

I am installing Debian 1.1.1 on a generic clone with an AMD 486 on an Opti-based motherboard. If I have the internal cache enabled in setup, I get the error "invalid compressed format" after the "uncompressing Linux" message. If I disable the cache, it boots fine. It boots ok from the hard drive

boot floppy problems - invalid compressed format

I'm having a lot of trouble getting Debian on a 486 box. It's a pretty generic machine, with an IDE hard drive & cdrom, AMD 486 CPU on a motherboard with the Opti chipset. Special kernel 0 doesn't get anywhere at all. THe standard kernel gets to this point: Loading. Uncompressing Linux