Hi,
I installed 2.2 from floppy onto a pair of ibm thinkpad 750's (486sx
16M RAM), so the 486 chip shouldn't be an issue.
If you're having trouble with a lomem install, I still have some 2.1
CD's I've been dying to donate to a good cause (I belive I wedged
debian onto a 386 4M system with the flo
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 09:30:01PM -0400, Matt Gerginski wrote:
| Hi. I want to put debian on a 486 that I recently got from my school.
| They were giving away "obsolete" computers, so I grabbed 5 of them. I
| just have one small problem: I can't get any of the rescue.bin dis
said Matt Gerginski (on 2001-06-10),
> Hi. I want to put debian on a 486 that I recently got from my school.
> They were giving away "obsolete" computers, so I grabbed 5 of them. I
> just have one small problem: I can't get any of the rescue.bin disks to
> boot on t
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 09:30:01PM -0400, Matt Gerginski wrote:
> disk. I need to find a boot disk that works, compile a kernel of my own
> for the boot disk, or find an older debian boot disk and hope it works
> with the machine and still works with the debian installation process.
> Any suggest
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Robert Ruzbacky wrote:
> > Hi. I want to put debian on a 486 that I recently got from my school.
> .
> > > for the boot disk, or find an older debian boot disk and hope it works
> > with the machine and still works with the debian installation pr
, try redownloading and
using a new disk to transfer.
- Original Message -
From: Matt Gerginski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 9:30 PM
Subject: debian on a 486
> Hi. I want to put debian on a 486 that I recently got from my
school.
> They were giving aw
- Original Message -
From: "Matt Gerginski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 11:30 AM
Subject: debian on a 486
> Hi. I want to put debian on a 486 that I recently got from my school.
.
.
> > for the boot disk, or find an older deb
Hi. I want to put debian on a 486 that I recently got from my school.
They were giving away "obsolete" computers, so I grabbed 5 of them. I
just have one small problem: I can't get any of the rescue.bin disks to
boot on the computer. It boots fine in my newer computer, so i
There is one more thing.
On 286's and above when in real mode, if the segment register is set to
0x then the address's above 0x will overflow into address bit
a20 giving access to an additional 65k(-16 bytes) of memory in real
mode. This was known as 'hi-mem' access and dos 4.0 and abo
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, G. Crimp wrote:
> The A20 line has something to do with working around a bug in memory
> addressing that first showed up in 286's I think. I don't really know much
> about it, but on my 486, their is an option in the BIOS to set the line.
> You might try changing this
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 03:03:28PM -0800, Alan Bailward wrote:
> > other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the
> > root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message
> > "A20 gate not responding!"...
> [snip]
> > The problem machine is a 486DX3
Subject: RE: Problems installing Debian on a 486
Date: Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:43:47AM +1200
In reply to:Matthew Gregan
Quoting Matthew Gregan([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> At 15:03 1999-03-23 -0800, Alan Bailward wrote:
> >> other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and
Matthew Gregan wrote:
>
> At 15:03 1999-03-23 -0800, Alan Bailward wrote:
> >> other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the
> >> root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message
> >> "A20 gate not responding!"...
I can't answer your question
At 15:03 1999-03-23 -0800, Alan Bailward wrote:
>> other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the
>> root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message
>> "A20 gate not responding!"...
>[snip]
>> The problem machine is a 486DX33 with 8MB of RAM, i
> other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the
> root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message
> "A20 gate not responding!"...
[snip]
> The problem machine is a 486DX33 with 8MB of RAM, if you need more info
> about the hardware, please let
Hi everyone.
I've got 2 old 486 machines here that I'm trying to install slink onto. One
of them is a Compaq Deskpro 486/33M and the other is built out of off the
shelf parts. I've managed to install onto the Compaq machine with no
problems whatsoever, but when I try to boot the rescue/install dis
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