Cost-effective servers

First of all, my debian machines are running terrifically well, so thanks to all who have labored long and hard to produce such a quality product!! I am helping my local school district in Maine establish networks and servers. We are farthest along at the high school with about a 120 node ethernet

re: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33

I previously wrote: > Installation fails on this old machine shortly after hitting return at the > 'Boot Parameters' prompt using the standard bootdisk. Linux 1.2.13 runs fine. Additional info: after hitting return I get from 3 to 6 dots and then a 'bad disk' message. The disk is not bad, howeve

module cdu31a fails on insert

I am installing debian 1.1.1 from the August Pacific Hi Tech CD on my Gateway 200 PS-60. Things go OK until I try to add the cdu31a module to support the CDU33A CDROM drive in the Gateway: it fails to insert. The drive is defaulted onto 0x340; when I try to add a parameter to the module insertion

installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33

Installation fails on this old machine shortly after hitting return at the 'Boot Parameters' prompt using the standard bootdisk. Linux 1.2.13 runs fine. I suspect (based upon bug reports) that APM is enabled in the kernel on the standard bootdisk and that this is the problem. I propose to install