hmm, the on again, off-again linux/486/xterminal project seems on again :)
What we're doing is turning 486's into xterminals for our alphas. They'll only have about 8mb, and from 80-200 of hd, but what the heck :) I have seized control of some spare drives, and want to dedicate a 200mb hard drive as an installation disk. I figure to attach it with a second ide controller, which will be permanently assigned to the disk. What I'm thinking is to have a small dos partition, with enough to for loadlin, resc.bin and drvrs.bin, then to put the rest on an ext2 partition. So installing would be a matter of 1) pull cover, add memory and/or drive, add installation drive. 2) boot from the existing dos, and use loadlin to read in resc & drvr. 3) mount the ex2 partition. Or can I change /etc/fstab in root.bin to automount /dev/hdc2?? 4) go through rest of installation. 5) run dpkg on the rest of the .deb files. Or, would it be easier to simply make the root.bin, and leave the installation drive served up as nfs? Or, to simply copy the whole file system, as the only differences between the systems will be their IP/names, ram & hd size, and the amount of ram on the video card (hey, they're apex. Bought at the same time, and all slightly different. Even found a 540 drive in one posing as a 200 . . .) rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
