[KLUG Members] Failed network install?

[magoo]

mag00 wrote:

I forwarded this discussion thread to <stephanroth@chartermi.net>!
He expressed very positive comments to me when I helped him carry
his PC back to his vehicle last Tuesday night.  Hope he lets us
know how it went with his install.  I really liked his attitude
about Linux and why he wanted to run it.

>Wesley Leonard wrote:
>
>We were trying an HTTP install.  I wasn't feeling up to setting up NFS.
>
>I think the install was somewhat successful because we got the guy's hard
drive
>partitioned (which was something that he was having difficulty with) and
he got
>to see most of the installation process so when he got home and replaced
his CD
>drive he was going to finish the install himself.
>
>If you joined the list, please let us know how it went!
>
>l8er
>
>Kevin DeGraaf wrote:
>> 
>> > SYSTEM 2 - Stephan Roth NOT GIVING UP!!! 120 MHz Intel P1 CPU with 32
>> > Mb RAM & 2 Gb hard drive INSTALLING: BS-Ware Pro RESULTS:  Older
>> > non-IDE CD-ROM drive failed CD Install.  Several other CD-ROM drives
>> > were tried without success.  A network install was halted by higher
>> > RAM memory requirements.  Acting Installmaster... Wes Leonard
>> 
>> I'm curious as to why 32 MB would be insufficient for a network
>> installation of Linux.  This past semester, a friend and I managed to
>> stage a bunch of 486-66's with 8 MB of RAM via NFS... granted, that was
>> using Slackware, but...
>> 
>> -------------
>> Kevin DeGraaf
>> http://www.kevindegraaf.net/
>
>Wesley Leonard
>marshall@pacdemon.org


>>>John Bridleman wrote:
>>> 
>>>Since Wes was the installer on that project I'll let him give the
official >>>response but I think that they tried an official Red Hat CD but
the second cd >>>was at home on the kitchen table so Wes then tried
BSware-PRO.
>>>--
>>>John Bridleman / john@bridleman.org


>>Bruce Smith wrote:
>>
>>My _guess_ would be the higher memory requirements of the 2.4 kernel.
>>(assuming you did it with a 2.2 or earlier kernel)
>>
>>There might have been other factors involved too.
>>
>>
>>CORRECTION:  That was *NOT* BSware-PRO or BSware.  When I was watching
>>the failed install attempt, there was appeared to be an Official Redhat 
>>CD in the drive.  A red colored CD anyway, definitely not BSware.
>>(although someone else's copy of BSware may have been tried later, donno)
>>
>>--------------------------------------------
>>Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com


mag00 wrote:

At one point during the installation attempt with Stephan's
PC, I saw Stephan holding the BS-Ware Pro CD's in his hand.  I
commented that it was an excellent choice for beginners.


L8r  mag00  <grin>


>>IMHO, RedHat and Mandrake are _moronic_ in requiring so much
>>memory.  There is just no reason for it.  They should at least do
>>what Slackware does, activate swap early in the install process.

>>I think you can still install RedHat in under the 48MB RAM
>>recommended by using the "text" option.  Yeah, I just installed 7.1
>>on such a system the other day.

>>-- TheBS

>>-- 
>>Bryan "TheBS" Smith     mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org