On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, fooler wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pablo Manalastas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 11:28 AM > Subject: Re: [plug] network installation on a keyboardless machine > > > > Why don't you remove the HD, transfer the HD to a machine with > > keyboard and monitor, and then after installation, put the HD back into > > the original keyboardless machine? > > there is a drawback when doing this doc... if the admin is know nothing > about the differences between i386, i586 or i686 precompiled kernels since > the orignal hardware is pentium 166... putting the harddisk on the latest > pentium machine and the installer used the higher precompiled kernel for > that processor to take advantage of it and putting it back to pentium 166, > the results will be kernel panic or hangup...
Ahh... a Mandrake or possible gentoo user? :) Since he will be installing Slackware, the default kernel is compiled as i386. So he will not be having problems installing slack. regards, --- Andre M. Varon, SCSA http://andre.lasaltech.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
