Re: installing Linux by floppy to get driver
My old 486 didn't have a builtin CDROM. I had an Adaptec 1542b and an external SCSI CD ROM. Redhat, Mandrake, etc all work just fine with that setup. The CD can be from a mac or sun as well. Any SCSI CD-ROM drive will work with CDs in the boxed set (stamped). Older drives can have issues with CD-R disks. CD-RW can only be read on newer drives. Matthew J. Brodeur said: -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 -- --- Tom Buskey ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
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
