installing Linux by floppy to get driver
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 Digital Celebris model, or something like that. Since he can't use the CD ROM drive, he can't install Linux by CD. We found a floppy-based distro called DLX (http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9301726/dlx.html), which I was thinking could get Linux up and running, but how to get him the SCSI CD-ROM driver? Once the CD drive works, we can just install a regular distribution or something. Any suggestions? Thanks, Erik -- Erik Price (zombies roam) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: installing Linux by floppy to get driver
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 the machine? If so, you could always do an nfs install. I've done a bunch of these with Redhat, and it's always worked great. Of course, this assumes you have a second box you can use as the nfs server. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux Unix IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / abreauj@aim / abreauj@yahoo / 28611923@icq Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 Some people say, The enemy of my enemy is my friend. I often respond, When elephants fight, it's the grass that gets trampled. msg00802/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: installing Linux by floppy to get driver
-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 driver is built into the Linux kernel (or I think it is), but his is a SCSI model -- it's a Digital Celebris model, or something like that. I *think* that Red Hat's standard boot floppy (boot.img) supports SCSI cards CD-ROMs. You may need one of the supplemental driver disks (drvblock, oldcdrom, etc) as well, but I don't think so. I'd create the boot floppy and see what it detects. There may be an issue with the age of the CD drive, though. Many older drives can't read recordable discs. Again, the easiest way to find out is to try it. - -- -Matt I used to have a handle on life, but then it fell off. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9ldloc8/WFSz+GKMRAu6eAKCSy8a6trrQLiuYtgpy6TWeLjYNbQCgsH+T FKAC/T8LnGKlgprvxzYZtjs= =Wl1S -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
R H ver 8.0
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] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: R H ver 8.0
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 look at ftp.redhat.com and saw that the 8.0 directory exists, chmod'ed as 700. In the past, the release came very soon after the directory appeared, presumably after the official mirrors had been given enough time to mirror the new release. So I expect to see the release very soon, long before the BLU Installfest which is scheduled for October 26. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux Unix IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / abreauj@aim / abreauj@yahoo / 28611923@icq Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 Some people say, The enemy of my enemy is my friend. I often respond, When elephants fight, it's the grass that gets trampled. msg00807/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: R H ver 8.0
-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 Personal Desktop is available Workstation installation type has been redesigned for ... software development or system administration * It is now possible to specify the boot order of your drives (during installation) * The installation program automatically configures a USB mouse ... whenever a USB mouse is inserted, it will be functional * It is now possible to install from an FireWire(TM) CD-ROM * Logical Volume Management (LVM) configuration is now available during installation * The OpenOffice.org office suite is now included * Due to patent licensing ... mp3 support has been removed * Red Hat Linux now uses Xft for fonts * GNOME 2.0 is now included and contains ... anti-aliased fonts * XFree86 3.3.6 video hardware support has now been removed * GCC has been updated to version 3.2 * glibc has been updated to version 2.3 * Perl has been updated to version 5.8 * Apache HTTP server has been updated to version 2.0 * The Netscape(TM) Web browser has been removed * RPM will suggest package(s) that will satisfy unresolved dependencies * contains the following new configuration and system tools: log viewer, nfs config, x config, sound card config, language selection, package management These are just the points that I've actually experienced during the beta testing. There are a lot of other changes, for better or worse. Overall it looks very nice based on the late stages of the beta cycle. The official release is (according to almost every source) 30 Sep, or in about 23 hours. - -- -Matt Time is just an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. -Ford Prefect -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQE9looAc8/WFSz+GKMRAh7GAJdWHT8Yh4bITE5rl4ghDeFZRxs8AKC57voL ky/HAXVkrP69NL43YhAl/w== =OP32 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
