Yep, if I had been willing to wait, I could have gotten one via mailorder fro $9 (+shipping/handling).

FunFunFunFunFun!

Let's see, first off, the machine would boot to the Debian floppy, and hang during the decompression.

So, mess with the BIOS settings.

Now machine won't get past the BIOS messages.

Oops.

So, move the NIC to another slot.

Still hanging on the BIOS messages.

Hmmmmm.

Go into BIOS setup and put everything to default.

Cool. Machine boots to Debian floppy and the installation completeswithout a hitch.

Now, install "man". That works.

Next, install "ssh". Oops. Something isn't working right. I'm getting errors on the script.

Hmmmm, the floppies I used were the "fixed" ones from the "proposed updates" directory. Perl 5.005 is on there, but the stable versions look for perl 5.004.

Damn.

Okay, "vi /etc/apt/sources.conf". Switch everything to "unstable".

apt-get update

apt-get install perl

Now, waiting for it to finish that (slow DSL line).

Once that's done, I'll finish the "apt-get upgrade".

*sigh*

And the only reason I'm using the "proposed-updates" images are because the regular images gave me weird errors about a script file that wasn't installed. (this happened a few weeks ago)

It looks like I'm going to have to hack on the original disks a bit and get them fixed for the next Linux User Group meeting here. I like Debian, but I want it to be a bug-free installation.

And all this started because I had some left over pieces.

Why do I get myself in projects like this?

I've re-installed several times.

The good news is that I found the 4 - 72 pin simms that I thought were 32MB total, turn out to be 32MB each. 128MB of RAM I didn't know I had.

Anyway, after swapping out the RAM and just about everything else, I think I have a somewhat flacky processor. I'll get a 90Mhz tomorrow and try it again.

Damn.