I have done a Floppy Disk install of Debian on a 486 laptop. Works fine. Read this... http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/install Specifically... http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-create-floppy Then start down loading... http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/ch-appendix.en.html#s-base-images Sam. Chris Schumann wrote: >OK, I've got a very old laptop. 33MHz 486, no CD drive. I want to run Linux >on it. > >I tried Gentoo, and got pretty far, but when I tried to build a kernel, >well... there are a couple bugs in the source for building for a 486 with >nopci and isapnp. I tried using their generic kernel genkernel, but that >panicked on boot. So I've kind of given up on that distro. > >I'm trying a Slackware install over a network. I get NFS apparently working, >but once it actually starts to install that first package (aaa_base?) it >hangs. Then it says it's waiting for the NFS server. (That server is a >900MHz Athlon running Fedora Core 3 and NFS.) > >I think my next step is to try a hard disk install. Nanobox Linux just >reboots over and over. > >Slackware bare+root only has wget and NFS. No ftp, no smb, so doing any kind >of recursive copy is out... and NFS doesn't seem to work too well. > >Any tips or pointers would be great, as I'd really like to use this thing as >a print server if nothing else. Getting X and sound to work would be just >too cool, but probably too much effort. > >Many thanks, >Chris Schumann > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.6 - Release Date: 3/30/2005