From: Gammon, John P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > I am thinking that I may have to install RH6.1 by hand and am wondering
> > where to start with this process. Any suggestions?
Just do like i did...
I have a laptop with a 1.3Gb disk. It has three partitions, one with an
operating system from one litle company in Redmond, 700Mb in a partition for
linux and a 50Mb for swap. Don't know why, I was never able to make plip
work in this machine. Slip wasn't a better choice either. The pcmcia card
was not supported by the pcmcia.img disk from redhat. And I really wanted to
have redhat in the computer. The windows partition had 100Mb free, so I
could not copy the RH 6.1 cdrom. So, what have I done?
I downloaded ZipSlack (a tiny slackware distribution -
www.slackware.com - runs over UMSDOS, fits nicely in a zip disk or in the
100 Mb free on the dos partition)... Booted it, and made a fdisk, mkfs
/dev/hda5, mkswap /dev/hda6, copied the rpm binary from another machine, as
well as the rpmrc. Mounted the hda5 on /mnt. Done a
rpm --initdb --root=/mnt. After that, I startd rpm'ing every rpm in redhat
by hand. Finally, it become a minimal distribution that was already able to
let me log in, after more a couple of installed rpms I had network, then
nfs, then the redhat cdrom nicely mounted in /mnt/cdrom... Et voila...
The only sad thing is that a couple of days after, I discovered my home
mate has a network pccard at his job, which is automagically detected by the
redhat boot install... So, if i had known it sooner, i could have installed
linux the easy way... But what the hell, it was fun!!!
Regards,
Luis Pinto
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