Posted by william on Sat Nov 7 17:58:00 1998
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I'm going to post Red Hat 5.2 to Hurst St on three Zip
disks and three floppies. I suspect from personal
experience with RH and what one hears from others that
RH is actually the least good distribution out of it,
SuSE and Debian but it is probably the one most English-
speaking PHBs have heard of, which may matter at some
point.You will have to look at
http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/redhat-5.2/i386/doc/rhmanual/manual/index.htm
for the installation guide. I hope the first disk
(marked `core') will be sufficient---I had to be a bit
brutal to get it in below 100Mb. Otherwise everything
is there except TeX, which I can't see you wanting under
any circumstances, and Slovenian, etc., documentation.Tips:
If you want to keep Windoze (I don't think we do especially?)
use fips.exe, which you will find at
http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/redhat-5.2/i386/dosutils/
to shrink the Windows partition down to 400Mb, then
proceed.Connect the Zip drive and put the `core' disk in the
drive (actually put it in, since the Linux driver on the
`boot' floppy won't detect it otherwise). Boot off the
`boot' floppy. Answer questions (use the guide where
necessary). Choose `hard disk' installation method
when prompted. Insert `supplementary' floppy. Say
you DO have SCSI devices---the parallel port Zip is
considered SCSI. Choose the Zip driver from the big
list of SCSI drivers (it's called Iomega something I
think, otherwise Zip or PPA).Don't try and install X---none of the packages are
on the first disk.Just let it complain about missing packages. I think
everything critical should be on the first disk.If there is a problem, copy the RedHat trees from each
floppy onto a partition (such as the shrunk Windows
one) and let the floppies find the packages there.The third floppy is a "rescue" disk. I have never used
it but it is a tiny Linux system which is useful if you
ever do something silly so that it won't boot off the
hard drive.On the second Zip disk is all the stuff which was (a)
big and seemed (b) irrelevant for our immediate purposes.
On the third is everything beginning X or x, plus the
Linux port of JDK 1.1.7. I forgot to put kaffe on but
it probably ships with RedHat anyway.