[SGVLUG] last nite's meeting - please help

[Dustin Laurence]

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:52:21PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote:

> I once went to a Mandrake install fest and I couldn't install anything
> since their software didn't support my old 486 PC.

The *kernel* has just about dropped 486 support, I think.

> Supposedly, I install a minimal system from floppies and then get the
> rest of the software from the Internet.  I looked into this before and
> Debian claimed it would work but it didn't seem to explain exactly how
> to do it.  It was called "network install" but it didn't seem to have a
> way to dial in to an ISP to connect to connect to the Internet.

It's the only way I've ever installed Debian, and it works fine.  You
get ethernet working and apt-get what you need.  I have never tried it
with a modem, though--it would take a looooong time.

Dustin
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