FTP install of RH...

[Matthew J. Brodeur]

   I believe the 20MB requirement is a new "feature" in RH7.0.  You should
be able to do a net install of 6.2 or earlier.  I guess one could build a
custom root disk that partitioned, formatted, and enabled swap _before_
loading the second stage...

   As a side note, you need BOTH CDs accessable concurrently for an NFS
install.  You either have to copy both CDs to a local FS, or copy one and
mount/symlink to the other.  It's messy and tedious, but it can be done.


-- 
     -Matt

The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.



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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