[Wlug] Distributions with Syslinux?

[Adam Keck]

Have you tried to installing from floppy?


<http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/Debian3.1r3/main/installer-i386/current/images/floppy/>

or

<http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/Debian3.0r6/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/bf2.4/>

-Adam

On 9/6/06, Richard Klein <rich at richardklein.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to install *nix on an old Gateway2000 120MHz Pentium.  Most of
> the discs (debian 3.1, ubuntu 5.10, phlak, solaris 10, freebsd 5.1, suse
> 9.0, openbsd, netbsd 1.6.2) I have won't boot on it, giving an Isolinux
> error (I forget exactly what the error was - it's at home and I'm at
> work).  PHLAK (I forget the version) boots, but locks up with a black
> screen after it starts X.  I'm guessing it boots because it uses Syslinux
> instead of Isolinux, but I don't know if that's true.  netbsd 1.6.2 also
> boots, and I installed that last night, but I hate the default twm window
> manager, I don't know how netbsd handles packages (I'm thinking of things
> like deb or rpm packages), I don't know my way around netbsd, this is an
> old version of netbsd, and netbsd is probably the wrong choice for what I
> want to do, anyway.  I want to see if I can turn this heap into a useful
> web browser and email reader (well, web-mail could take care of email
> chores).  Some basic office apps would be nice, too.
>
> So, if I'm right that this old hardware is incompatible with Isolinux,
> what are my options?
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Rich
>
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-Adam