Re: Debian on i486

2006-08-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Sorry for the late answer, but your mail was a FP. Am 2006-07-25 23:30:25, schrieb Bruno Buys: > Why won't it run? I'd try sarge with 2.6 kernel (i386) + base install. I > have sarge 2.6.8.2-386 running on a amd k6 300 with 64mb, just base > system, runs great. It is NOT recommended to run Lin

Re: Debian on i486

2006-08-07 Thread Bill Smith
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, I have obtained the proper module for the 2.4 kernel and my ethernet card (3c509), but modprobing it results in insmod: Unresolved symbol isapnp_fin

Re: Debian on i486

2006-08-04 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Hello, > > I have obtained the proper module for the 2.4 kernel and my ethernet > card (3c509), but modprobing it results in > > insmod: Unresolved symbol isapnp_find_dev_Rdae0a386 > >

Re: Debian on i486

2006-08-04 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, I have obtained the proper module for the 2.4 kernel and my ethernet card (3c509), but modprobing it results in insmod: Unresolved symbol isapnp_find_dev_Rdae0a386 Google does not find any pages with that symbol. Any ideas? -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian on i486

2006-08-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Leonid Grinberg wrote: Yes, I did mean floppy image. Sorry. If you could send me one, that would be great! Floppy image for a 1.44 MB PC style DSHD floppy along with instructions sent under separate cover. BTW, I always write protect the floppy before booting. This causes an error report, bec

Re: Debian on i486

2006-08-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:03:11PM -0400, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Yes, I did mean floppy image. Sorry. > > If you could send me one, that would be great! you know, I have no problem emailing you the specific module you need to get the net operating on that machine as well, which seems to be the

Re: Debian on i486

2006-08-01 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Yes, I did mean floppy image. Sorry. If you could send me one, that would be great! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on i486

2006-08-01 Thread Mike McCarty
Leonid Grinberg wrote: I downloaded a CD image of SmartBoot Manager, but upon loading it, the only options are: Reboot BIOS Harddrive Floppy No CD. Not what I get. Did you use the link I provided? I have an old '486 (AMD586, actually) with only 16M of memory, and I have no problem. I suppose

Re: Debian on i486

2006-08-01 Thread Leonid Grinberg
I downloaded a CD image of SmartBoot Manager, but upon loading it, the only options are: Reboot BIOS Harddrive Floppy No CD. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on i486

2006-08-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 02:40:36PM -0400, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > After some work, I have discovered at least one reason for the > failure: The ethernet card is actually 3c509 and not 3c59x. The Debian > floppy does not have 3c509 with it. > > The version of Linux on the harddrive has the 3c509 m

Re: Debian on i486

2006-08-01 Thread Leonid Grinberg
After some work, I have discovered at least one reason for the failure: The ethernet card is actually 3c509 and not 3c59x. The Debian floppy does not have 3c509 with it. The version of Linux on the harddrive has the 3c509 module, but it used the 2.2 kernel. Will it work? The only thing that I can

Re: Debian on i486

2006-07-31 Thread Mike McCarty
Leonid Grinberg wrote: I have tried installing Debian and ran into some problems. The machine has both a floppy drive and a CD drive, but the BIOS does not recognize the CD drive as a drive, and does not allow me to boot off of it, let alone USB. That leaves only floppies. I burned boot.img I

Re: Debian on i486

2006-07-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:52:41PM -0400, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > I have tried installing Debian and ran into some problems. > > The machine has both a floppy drive and a CD drive, but the BIOS does > not recognize the CD drive as a drive, and does not allow me to boot > off of it, let alone USB.

Re: Debian on i486

2006-07-31 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > The machine has both a floppy drive and a CD drive, but the BIOS does > not recognize the CD drive as a drive, and does not allow me to boot > off of it, let alone USB. That leaves on

Re: Debian on i486

2006-07-30 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > The machine has both a floppy drive and a CD drive, but the BIOS does > not recognize the CD drive as a drive, and does not allow me to boot > off of it, let alone USB. That leaves only floppies. > the machine is unable to > recognize the eth

Re: Debian on i486

2006-07-30 Thread Leonid Grinberg
I have tried installing Debian and ran into some problems. The machine has both a floppy drive and a CD drive, but the BIOS does not recognize the CD drive as a drive, and does not allow me to boot off of it, let alone USB. That leaves only floppies. I burned boot.img root.img net-drivers.img and

Re: Debian on i486

2006-07-25 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
El Miércoles, 26 de Julio de 2006 02:15, Leonid Grinberg escribió: > Hello, > > I am hopefully going to recieve an old i486 machine, and for kicks, I > thought that it would be nice to install Debian. Does anyone know how > I would go about doing this, as well as how much success I should > expect

Re: Debian on i486

2006-07-25 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 08:15:07PM -0400, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > I am hopefully going to recieve an old i486 machine, and for kicks, I > thought that it would be nice to install Debian. Does anyone know how > I would go about doing this, as well as how much success I should > expect to get? It

Re: Debian on i486

2006-07-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, I am hopefully going to recieve an old i486 machine, and for kicks, I thought that it would be nice to install Debian. Does anyone know how I would go about doing this, as well as how much success I should expect to get? Obviously, Debian no longer supports i486, b

Re: Debian on i486

2006-07-25 Thread Bruno Buys
Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, I am hopefully going to recieve an old i486 machine, and for kicks, I thought that it would be nice to install Debian. Does anyone know how I would go about doing this, as well as how much success I should expect to get? Obviously, Debian no longer supports i486, b

Re: Debian on i486

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Leonid Grinberg wrote: > I am hopefully going to recieve an old i486 machine, and for kicks, I > thought that it would be nice to install Debian. Does anyone know how > I would go about doing this, as well as how much success I should > expect to get? Obviously, Debian no longer supports i486, but

Debian on i486

2006-07-25 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, I am hopefully going to recieve an old i486 machine, and for kicks, I thought that it would be nice to install Debian. Does anyone know how I would go about doing this, as well as how much success I should expect to get? Obviously, Debian no longer supports i486, but perhaps there is a way