Paul, Which release of Debian did you use? I just tried that approach with Sarge and my dad's laptop.. Seemed to get the base system "installed" okay, but I couldn't get grub installed. I tried booting from floppy with the drive in the Stylistic anyhow, specifying root=/dev/hda3, but for some reason it didn't like that. The error messages were quite cryptic and I don't remember them exactly, but it was something to the effect of it couldn't find /dev/hda3 (although I'm certiain it's there...).
Do you still have your Stylistic around? Would you consider bringing it to a meeting (if you can make it)? I'd be very interested in seeing it working. Thanks, ~Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of paul Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 10:18 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Installing Debian Stable on old hardware 25 Dec 2004 19:19:18 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 06:29:27PM -0500, Brian Henning wrote: > > Or, if a different version would be better for me to use, I am wide open to > > suggestions. I think I'd like to stick with Debian if possible, though. > I have one of these as well. The first time that I installed it, I took the drive out, did the base install in a laptop, and then put the drive back in the stylistic and configed it. The other methods were with a xircom or 3com network card that I had no problems with at all. And if you haven't been there already, http://www.the-labs.com/Stylistic/1000.html Hope this helps you out. Paul -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
