I installed slink on my 486. 210mb hd and 12 mgs ram, from floppy. I was trying to install slack, but just couldn't get it to work, so I tried debian and all went fine. If you are making the floppies from windoz, as I did, it is important to do so from dos,
and not a dos window, and I would reformat every floppy in dos. If all else fails, I could snail-mail you my floppies. russell kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Alternatively, a PLIP (parallel port IP) link to another sytem might > also work. > > I'd probably vote for an HD swap myself. > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 05:14:53PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > > > You might try coping the files to floppies that have > > been formated on the target machine's drive. Or > > transfer the target machine's floppy drive to the > > machine doing the copying and then move it back to the > > tarket machine. Methinks floppy interchange may be a > > problem. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > To all, > > > > I have tried to install Debian from floppy disks several times on an old > > IBM 486 ps2 machine. The machine boots fine with the rescue disk fine. > > The point at which the install fails is during the mounting of the > > rescue disk to continue with the base install. I have made several > > new rescue floppys thinking it may be the media. I have only chosen > > to install from floppy because the machine has no cdrom and only one > > isa slot for expansion. It does have a 300 mb hard and 8 mb of ram. > > Thanks for any help in advance. > > > > > > > > ===== > > Amateur Radio, when all else fails! > > > > http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze > > > > Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or ..... > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. > > http://invites.yahoo.com > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > -- > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http:/www.netcom.com/~kmself > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ > GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
