[H-GEN] Debian floppies for Saturday

[Tony Bilbrough]

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Paul,
I have a 486 dx2 compac [not a lappie] with a 400 mb hdd, running 
windows 98 lite on 32 mb ram
- works really well, as all the ie stuff been dumped removed.
Do you want me to bring it so you can copy the what ever off the 
beginnning of the hdd?
To Install win on mine I took the hdd out and put it in my Humbug boxen 
to do the install
Then dropped it back in the old box.
No worries there.
If either of your machines will post to the hdd, it may well be your 
best option to load deb on that hdd in another boxen and then just drop 
it back in.
Hdd size was the only real prob I encountered with mine!
Installations do not generally wipe the bios on the hdd. It seeems to be 
on some part that remains untouched by an install.
cheers
tony

Paul Clarke wrote:

>Thanks Everyone,
>
>I have two compac's that I will bring tomorrow, and I will try to find
>some old CR-ROMS from work. Ideally installing from a CD is the go so
>hopefully we can get one of the machines to recognise the CD. It seems
>that Compac have their setup programs on a partition on the HDD (Which I
>have probably wiped while trying to install redhat a year ago) so it
>seems that if we can reinstate that we should be able to get the CD
>happening.
>
>Tsnip.............
>
>Paul
>
>  
>
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