John J. Trammell wrote: >Hi all: > >Just a quick note to let you all know about my success installing >Debian/woody on an old 386 laptop I got from my uncle. > >The trick I used to make the install work pretty much followed the >trick from the 4-MB-HOWTO, but I took it to the next step and used >a null-modem SLIP connection to upload the rest of the install media >to the laptop (no eth0). Even so the install b0rked (for reasons >unknown; out of memory perhaps?), but not before I had a bootable >system. After that, a little dpkg magic fixed everything up. > >I can hardly wait to install a 2.6 kernel on it! :-) > >J > > > I hereby dub you "Nerd of the week" I once tried to install slack (I think 7) on a 386 desktop but my patience ran out when I ran into memory problems _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list