installing Linux by floppy to get driver

2002-09-28 Thread Erik Price
I have a friend at work who has an older i486 and wants to install Linux onto it, perhaps to run Apache or something. The problem is that he doesn't have the CD ROM driver for it. I know that the IDE driver is built into the Linux kernel (or I think it is), but his is a SCSI model -- it's a

Re: installing Linux by floppy to get driver

2002-09-28 Thread John Abreau
Erik Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a friend at work who has an older i486 and wants to install Linux onto it, perhaps to run Apache or something. The problem is that he doesn't have the CD ROM driver for it. I know that the IDE driver Does he have a supported network card in

Re: installing Linux by floppy to get driver

2002-09-28 Thread Matthew J. Brodeur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Erik Price wrote: I have a friend at work who has an older i486 and wants to install Linux onto it, perhaps to run Apache or something. The problem is that he doesn't have the CD ROM driver for it. I know that the IDE

R H ver 8.0

2002-09-28 Thread Paul Courchene
Greetings In a recent post to GNHLUG, John Abreau of the BLU makes reference to the imminent release of Red Hat 8.0 ... What wonderful things are slated for RH 8.0 ? paulc ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: R H ver 8.0

2002-09-28 Thread John Abreau
Paul Courchene [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings In a recent post to GNHLUG, John Abreau of the BLU makes reference to the imminent release of Red Hat 8.0 ... What wonderful things are slated for RH 8.0 ? Someone mentioned in passing that 8.0 would be out very soon, so I took a

Re: R H ver 8.0

2002-09-28 Thread Matthew J. Brodeur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Paul Courchene wrote: What wonderful things are slated for RH 8.0 ? Selections from the release notes that I _definately_ didn't download from a mirror site that leaked the distro early: * A new installation type called