Quoting Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 11:24:16 AM, Thomas wrote: > > Also, one of the other respondents mentioned the net installation... > > I'll add on to that by saying that you don't necessarily need 7 > > disks--if you toss the tgz's for the base files and driver files onto a > > hard disk partition (and then load them during the installation), then > > you only need 2 floppies. > > For the net installation you only need 2 floppies. Well, at least as of > Potato as one of the options is to retrieve base from an http server. I think > there is also an NFS option but I didn't have NFS setup on my main boxen at > the time I was doing the install.
If I have already partitioned the disk and got a functional OS on the machine, I do it with a DOS boot disk. In case it's useful, my method is Make a DOS partition where the swap partition is going to be. Copy base, linux, drivers and install.bat files, plus dosutils/loadlin.exe and images-1.44/root.bin and rescue.bin to the DOS partition. Boot the DOS floppy, type C: and install.bat . Perform the installation from "harddisk". Reboot and, after typing in the root password or 1st username, switch to VC2 and login. Fdisk the dos partition to 82 (optional I think), mkswap, (I take the opportunity to add a few lines to /etc/fstab as well as the swap line) and swapon. If you leave the last bit any later on 32MB memory, you have to do it while been inundated with out-of-memory messages: quite tricky editing in ae! Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
