RE: Re: lenny on x86

From: news [mailto:news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stefan Monnier
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: lenny on x86

Then I guess my recommendation would be:
- use your Etch floppys to install an simple Debian system.
- using this system, use a USB key to transfer the hd-install data for
Lenny onto the drive
- boot&install Lenny.
Does that sound feasible?

Hello all!
Thanks for the suggestions!

Here is where I am at. I have the one laptop that I have been working
with, but until last night I had not looked into detail at the others.
So last night I goofed around with the various others. Several of them
had problems (bad screens, busted motherboards, keyboard with stuck
keys, ect). So I part swapped until I have 2 laptops that appear to work
really well, and one that has a busted mouse (not a big deal to me).

I also made the discovery that one of the laptops that all the hardware
appears to work on, is a different model and it has 98 on it! Sadly,
this one doesn't have a lan connection, nor wireless, nor a USB port,
nor a CDRom drive. Just a floppy, a parallel port, serial port, and a
PCMCIA slot. I do have a wireless PCMCIA adapter that works, so I spent
last night splitting drivers and other files to fit on a floppy to copy
over to it. If I can get 98 on the internet then I should be able to use
the earlier suggestion of www.goodbye-microsoft.com.

On the good system that has a USB port, I tried Celejar's suggestion for
the Smart Boot Manager on a floppy. So I put Debian Live on the USB
drive and tested that it worked on another machine. However, SBM refuses
to see the USB drive.

I do have a question that came up from last night. Since I was taking
all these laptops apart and doing a bit of mix/match to get things like
a good screen paired with a good MB and a working keyboard, I figured I
might as well install to one of the hard drives that I had pulled out.
So I fired up my old p2 400mhz desktop that was in the depths of the
closet (best match I have to the old Pentium line), plugged the drive in
via a USB adapter, and installed Lenny to the drive. Everything worked
as far as I could tell. It booted at least. So then I plugged the drive
into the laptop, reassembled, and on boot up I get a GRUB message that
just sticks there. After thinking about it, I never updated GRUB. The
install system probably installed it as SDx and in the laptop it
probably just shows up as HDx. I was thinking I would take the laptop
apart again and try to fix my error. It is a PITA to take them apart,
but after doing it so many times last night I think I have it down.
Besides, the mouse is already busted so not a big deal if I break
something else, right? So my questions are what suggestions do you guys
have? Are GRUB and fstab the only things I need to update? Installing
i386 with the 2.6 kernel to a P2 shouldn't have problems transferring to
a Pentium, correct? Is there a better kernel I should install? What are
the chances that something like this http://main.gnulabs.org/?q=node/3
will work?

Thanks for the help guys!

~Stack~


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