I have installed debian on a 486/75 with 20 M of ram, toshiba laptop. it was the previous debian release - potato?
I basically did it over a network. It had no cdrom. On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:03:42 +1200 Trevor de Stigter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Having just (more or less) installed Debian 3 on to a Toshiba 205CDS I > thought my experience might throw some light on your problems. > My machine Pentium90 . Added memory module to give 40Mb total. Original > 800Mb drive upgraded to a fairly new IBM 5Gb. Xircom 56k pcmca modem and > D-Link DFE650 10/100M pcmcia NIC. > > I started installing from the July APC mag cover discs, but found that while > the kernel installed from the CD successfully, the moment I started adding > packages with either tasksel or dselect things started going haywire, so I > went back to square 1; installed the kernel and then loaded all the packages > into apt using the ftp.nz.debian.org and http://security.debian.org sites. > I have it running successfully with kde, gFTP, vnc, apache, mysql and php > running (up to a point). > > So the speed and available RAM on your system should not be a problem. > > Best wishes > Trevor de Stigter > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Wilkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 4:40 PM > Subject: Re: Psycho old laptop Re: Household allocation of PCs Re: New > misbehaviour of cups > > > > Hi there, > > > > CF wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 20:28, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > > > > > >>I've tried Debian 3.0, Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1, and all three distros get > > >>into difficulty finding all the packages on the distro CD's to install > > >>from...and the key ones they refuse to let me find are the lighter > > >>weight desktop programs like ICEwm, fvwm etc...which I need to get a > > >>workable X system going...KDE or Gnome kill it dead... > > > > > > Have you got a NIC for it? Most if not all of my linux installs are > > > network ones - so the packages are downloaded as needed from the net. > > > > I'll grab a 10/100 PCMCIA ethernet adaptor so I can try using my > > Terminator 1100 to do the install onto the laptop... > > > > Its really weird when I try running the installation under Mandrake. > > I get to the point of manually selecting packages, and all the stuff > > I want is not listed for selection... > > > > With Debian all the packages are listed using dselect, but when I try > > to select one it cannot select all the dependencies as well... > > > > I guess its (lack of) memory related, so I will upgrade to 128MB when I > > get some money together... > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch. > > > > > > > > Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.rout.co.nz
