FTP install of RH...

[dave at dpallan.com (David Allan)]

I find old NICs much easier to get working than old CDROMs.  I have RH6.2
netinstalled on a 486-33 16MB RAM, 400MB IDE disk; I think I did an http
install, but I don't really remember; on some RH revs the http install
works better, on some ftp works better.

That's very ugly that 7.0 requires 20MB RAM.

Dave

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Kevin M. Gleason wrote:

> Does anyone know how I can get over this problem?
>
>     I have some old Compaqs with 16M RAM and my CD is not recognized by
> RH install. So I took the netboot image and copied it over to a floppy
> disk and booted from it (I'm on a T1 line at work). Now I find that RH
> 7.0 requires a minimum of 20M RAM for ftp and http install so I am stuck
> with performing an nfs install (but nothing can read the CDROM. Machines
> too old/obsolete to upgrade for linux. I could pop the top and install
> another CDROM but I guess I'm too lazy. Is the 20M ram ftp install
> particular to RH7.0 or indicative of all ftp installs?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
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