[oclug] Debian on a Thinkpad 360SC was: [Debian 2.1 iso ...(edit)]

[Peter Timusk]

Thanks so far everyone

Well I have Debian 3.0 downloaded and burned already about 6 disks. I 
did this on an eMac btw using the shareware Diskblaze for burning a few 
months ago. (in an unrelated question how many of you are using the new 
Mac OSX for linux stuff? I am have been learning vi and doing some perl 
programming learning on my eMac))

With the TP and Ray's and Stephen's advice quote below...
I guess now I have two ways to going. One I keep 2.1 and get my IBM 
etherjet pcmcia card working with my WinNT box through a linksys switch 
and read the CD's off the WinNT box, upgrade to 3.0. Or rather than 
that box use my Duron Debian 3 box( I know almost nothing about using 
it, just Linux for dummies basically fully read, but deviab is 
installed and booting to command prompt) and this box does not have x 
configured yet, and read that Debian 3.0 CD set from there. move around 
directories mnt Cd etc.

Or two, I make/download some base system install floppies for Debian 
3.0 and start at the beginning again on the 486 TP and then get the 
network working which I will need help with.

I am so dumb with networking I can't even configure my Dlink 4 port 
router. I have two books/sets of books on the Network + cert. and still 
haven't configured sharing files on any of my computers. I have never 
configured a Linux box to access the net.

I have a web listing of an XFree86(sp?) config file for the TP 360 for 
Debian 2.2 BTW. what will I need to do for Debian 3 to get X working?

BTW thanks for your help so far. My time on this project is not much 
yet I am learning a lot. But I won't be working on it much until later 
this coming week.


On Saturday, November 22, 2003, at 03:59  PM, Stephen Gregory wrote:

> On Saturday 22 November 2003 10:16, Raymond Wood wrote:
>>
>> My point is that I don't think you will gain anything by trying
>> to install an old version of Debian that is no longer being
>> maintained/supported.
>
> I agree with Raymond. I think the 486 will be quite happy with 
> Debian/stable
> (aka Woody). Debian developers have some pride that their distrobution 
> can
> run on really old hardware like 386s. The only issue I see is 
> downloading all
> 7 ISOs which is usually unecessary. Downloading only needed packages is
> better.
>
> Personally I would look at getting the network working first. I think 
> it will
> save you a bundle of time. (and swapping stacks of floppies is never 
> fun.) If
> you have a builtin, pcmcia, or parallel port ethernet device this 
> should be
> easy. Otherwise you can use dialup, or connect to another computer 
> useing PPP
> over null-modem, or PLIP over the parallel port. This list is ofcourse 
> an
> excellent place to ask for help.
>
> -- 
> sg
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