I would like to thank you all for all the help you provided me. I have, in the past, posted to this group with the following subjects:
1) floppy/ftp install anybody? 2) FLOPPY DISK INSTALLATION 3) Boot Failed with resc1440.bin 4) where are resc1440tecra.bin and drv1440tecra.bin? 5) HTTP installation... 6) XF86Config... I was trying to install Linux on an ThinkPads 365E and 755CX with 8MB RAM using a PCMCIA network card. All your suggestions, though every educational to me, did not work on these machines. Frustrated, I finally upgraded these machines to 24MB/16MB RAM last weekend and everything worked like a charm! I'm now a happy camper :). Apart from other things, the whole process has taught me: 1) Running X on a TP with a Pentium 75MHz/100MHz even with 16MB/24MB is not really an efficient way of using time. 2) NFS installation is (up to 4 times) faster than HTTP installation. I used the same machine on the LAN (at home) as both NFS server and HTTP server. 3) KDE is better on low-powered, memory-starved systems than GNOME. 4) It is better to use a working XF86Config file from somebody else than configuring the server on your own--moreso, when you do not know what kind of hardware you have. 5) Newsgroups and mailing lists are much better than any documentation out there on web sites (of various Linux distributors). 6) Installing Linux with 8 MB RAM is not easy, if not impossible, when you are installing on a computer without a CD-ROM drive. If your experiences have taught you similar lessons or if your experiences contradict mine, please share them with me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Again, I thank you all for your help. vasanth __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
