On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:35:20AM -0600, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > I also made the discovery that one of the laptops that all the hardware > appears to work on, is a different model and it has 98 on it! Sadly, > this one doesn't have a lan connection, nor wireless, nor a USB port, > nor a CDRom drive. Just a floppy, a parallel port, serial port, and a > PCMCIA slot. I do have a wireless PCMCIA adapter that works, so I spent > last night splitting drivers and other files to fit on a floppy to copy > over to it. If I can get 98 on the internet then I should be able to use > the earlier suggestion of www.goodbye-microsoft.com.
Unfortunatly, the installer can't use ppp on a serial link. However, if you get an earlier version of debian working, you can use a null-modem cable and set up ppp networking between the laptop and a box that has internet access. You can even access the other box's cdrom via NFS of the PPP link. Been there, done that. > closet (best match I have to the old Pentium line), plugged the drive in > via a USB adapter, and installed Lenny to the drive. Everything worked > as far as I could tell. It booted at least. So then I plugged the drive > into the laptop, reassembled, and on boot up I get a GRUB message that > just sticks there. After thinking about it, I never updated GRUB. The What grub message? You should get the grub menu. If you don't, get the grub-disk floppy and use that. Read the grub manual and howto; you can edit a menu entry or use the grub command line. > install system probably installed it as SDx and in the laptop it > probably just shows up as HDx. I was thinking I would take the laptop > apart again and try to fix my error. It is a PITA to take them apart, > but after doing it so many times last night I think I have it down. > Besides, the mouse is already busted so not a big deal if I break > something else, right? So my questions are what suggestions do you guys > have? Are GRUB and fstab the only things I need to update? Installing > i386 with the 2.6 kernel to a P2 shouldn't have problems transferring to > a Pentium, correct? Is there a better kernel I should install? What are > the chances that something like this http://main.gnulabs.org/?q=node/3 > will work? Try to get grub itself working before you bother taking the laptop apart. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
