At 07:08 PM 3/31/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Will RHL5.1 install from a boot floppy and the CDROM on a 16MB RAM 486?
>
>My attempt to do this on my old 486 failed. I dd'd the boot.img,
>supp.img, and rescue.img files from the CD onto floppies and tried
>to boot to the resulting boot floppy. The floppy disks made ok. Both the
>"standard" install-boot and the "expert" install-boot hung. Repeated
>tries of course had the same result. I never got to the supp.img floppy.
>
>This system is running RHL4.2 just fine, but I need some of the
>stuff in 5.1, chiefly the Korn shell and ghostscript 4.xx, and
>I want to install them from rpm's rather than making them from
>source .tgz files.
>
>Is more than 16MB needed to do this install, or is my problem
>more likely something else?
>
>Thanks again,
>
>bob jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
>
For 5.1, 16M is more then enough to install. Try making a new boot
disk. You might also check to see if there are updated boot images.
I don't remember if the boot images on the 5.1 CD had problems...
You realy should install 5.2 instead of 5.1 if you can get a copy
of it. 5.2 has some important bug fixes. (And the updates for
5.2 have more...)
Mikkel
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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