On Tuesday 01 Jul 2008 16:34, Arun Khan wrote: > On Tuesday 01 Jul 2008, jtd wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 Jul 2008 14:50, Arun Khan wrote: > > > On Tuesday 01 Jul 2008, jtd wrote: > > > > I have yet to come across a machine on which you cant install > > > > a linux distro. > > > > > > Way back, a colleague had picked up a Compaq rack mount server > > > (dot com bust auction) with a WinNT server installation. We > > > were unable to install; we tried RH, Mandrake, Caldera. The > > > install would hang. > > > > For such machines, use a boot server and image file. > > I did not know about this technique back in 2000. Even today, > though I am aware of it, I have not tried it yet. > > > Or dd a minimal > > install to the disk. connect the disk to another machine to do > > this. > > In the specific machine, all the disks were part of hardware raid - > we did not want to mess with it's setup.
Ah scsi. You would definetly need a custom kernel back then. > > In the distant past, in many cases where installations were > > bombing, running memory check showed up bad ram. > > Hmm. how do you do this if the system fails to boot some sort of > live cd (with mem test tools)? the image is the kernel with memtest. Not loading even this would be something. But there is always a first time. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
