> Hi,
Hi!!
>
> The easiest thing you can do... Since you are in delhi, take a trip down
to Nehru Place, grab an old ISA I/O card...
> put it in and you should have your extra IDE ports...
this easy way out doesnt help me.as its my cousins comp.and does not has a
cd-rom drive.buying Old ISA I/O card just for installation is not worth it
further if i buy one I/O card ,my cousin will ask me for cd drive too.
rather how it would be if i take some ethernet card(on temp basis) and try
installing through network...just thought of it....suggest!!
>
> 250 mb is quite enuf space to do an install... provided you know what you
are trying to do and what all you need to
i wish to run xserver on it (display adap is cirruslogic5430) will it work
on this 486 with only 8mb ram? i definately will not install
sounds/screensavers/desktop themes/gnome/emacs,etc..also i wish to give that
extra documentation. do u still think 250mb would be enuf?
> achieve it....
>
will try to do. do warn me if u think i might face some specific probs. with
it.
> > yes, there is also a port on the motherboard with the floppy drive cable
so
> > can i use it.
>
> To do what...??? that port will only talk to the FDC and not to an IDE
device.
noted that point .........thanks
> > should i make the partitions extendible???
>
> care to elaborate on that one -- "extending partitions" ??? only stuff
that I know and have used to do that is PM
> 4.0...
i was thinking to make these partitions in such a way so that they are not
of fixed size and can be increase there size when needed. can that be done
.if yes how?
>
> > also do i need to take some special care while
> > installing rhl on two hdd
>
> try whistling softly to the machine while it is formatting the HDDs...
para-science exponents have often claimed it
> reduces metal fatigue, hence less chance of the heads crash-landing on the
spinning platters *grins* (j/k)
>
i am seriously thinking over hiring 3-4 ppl for whistling + playing
flute,etc when i do installation over this comp..just wanna take extra
precautions.
> >-some raid concept(or it does automatically?).
>
> take it easy.! RAID is a different kettle of phish! ;-)
will my 2 hdd be detected automatically during installation? (i hope it
does) do i have to do anything else except giving the 2nd hdd partition as
"hdb"?
my cousin has worked on unix platform(almosta year),but is unfamiliar with
linux interface, i will help her as far as i can.
i think i am popularising linux. am i?
lots of other probs comin soon
wait for them
abhi
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