Re: Fwd: RH installed on a very small flash IDE

2001-04-15 Thread J Hayward
Hello Tom, > > Jim, > > > > I would be interested to know how you did this, and what packages you > ended up > > with. I am interested in a character-based system with perl on it, to use > as a > > portable terminal to run a cue-cate scanner to catalog my books, and I > have an > > old toshiba l

Re: Fwd: RH installed on a very small flash IDE

2001-04-15 Thread Thomas Porter
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 01:24:07PM -0700, J Hayward thoughtfully expounded: > Hello, > > Having some free time today I decided to try and see how small an > install I could do of RH 6.2 (could not find an old 6.1 disk). I took an > old pentium computer, installed only a floppy, cdrom, video card,

Re: Fwd: RH installed on a very small flash IDE

2001-04-15 Thread J Hayward
initial install of 109mb. So it is definitely possible to install 6.2 on this small a drive. Regards, Jim H > ,--- Forwarded message (begin) > > Subject: RH installed on a very small flash IDE > From: Vince Banes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 13 Ap

Re: Fwd: RH installed on a very small flash IDE

2001-04-15 Thread Hossein S. Zadeh
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Steve Fernandez wrote: > > > I need to install RH 6.x on a system using a small (128Mb) > > > IDE FLASH drive. I cannot use a regular hard drive since > > > this system will be placed in a high altitude balloon with > > > no presureized or heated cabin for the hard drive

Re: Fwd: RH installed on a very small flash IDE

2001-04-15 Thread Steve Fernandez
Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, J Hayward forwarded: > > > I need to install RH 6.x on a system using a small (128Mb) > > IDE FLASH drive. I cannot use a regular hard drive since > > this system will be placed in a high altitude balloon with > > no presureized or heated cabin

Re: Fwd: RH installed on a very small flash IDE

2001-04-14 Thread Charles Galpin
> This message was posted on the comp.os.linux.setup newsgroup. I thought it > was interesting. Anyone know how small an install of RH 6.x is possible? > > Regards, > Jim H > > ,--- Forwarded message (begin) > > Subject: RH installed on a ve

Re: Fwd: RH installed on a very small flash IDE

2001-04-13 Thread Bret Hughes
sage (begin) > > Subject: RH installed on a very small flash IDE > From: Vince Banes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 10:06:55 -0700 > > I need to install RH 6.x on a system using a small (128Mb) > IDE FLASH drive. I cannot use a regular hard drive since >

Re: Fwd: RH installed on a very small flash IDE

2001-04-13 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, J Hayward forwarded: > I need to install RH 6.x on a system using a small (128Mb) > IDE FLASH drive. I cannot use a regular hard drive since > this system will be placed in a high altitude balloon with > no presureized or heated cabin for the hard drive. Cool. > Fo

Re: RH installed on a very small flash IDE

2001-04-13 Thread J Hayward
LOL. For kind of opportunity I'm going to have to dig out an old hard drive and see how small an install I can manage. Hopefully someone here will have an answer for you. Regards, Jim H Vince Banes wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. If something comes from this, I'll > embed your name in

Re: Fwd: RH installed on a very small flash IDE

2001-04-13 Thread Paul Anderson
posted on the comp.os.linux.setup newsgroup. I thought it > was interesting. Anyone know how small an install of RH 6.x is possible? > > Regards, > Jim H > > ,--- Forwarded message (begin) > > Subject: RH installed on a very small flash IDE > From: Vince B

Fwd: RH installed on a very small flash IDE

2001-04-13 Thread J Hayward
Hello everyone, This message was posted on the comp.os.linux.setup newsgroup. I thought it was interesting. Anyone know how small an install of RH 6.x is possible? Regards, Jim H ,--- Forwarded message (begin) Subject: RH installed on a very small flash IDE