On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Kerry Blalock wrote:
> I am trying to salvage some old hardware for as much of a system as
> possible as a project for my grandson. I have a 486sx25 with 16 meg ram,
> and two small harddrives. One, a 245 M ibm, the other a 202 Calvalier.
I was using a 468/33 with about 400 MB disk and 16 of ram until just a
couple days ago. It's bound for duty as a firewall as soon as I can find
the time.
> When setting up Redhat 6.0, I can not get disk druid to partition the
> drives to a usable state. Everything works, until I try to go forward
> from here, but I get a message that I have not set up a swap file. I
> have actually set it up, but when I go back, is has been erased.
> I removed the second drive, and am able to get a bare, bare system
> going. Only editor is vi, and no xwindows, gnome, or any other modules
> from the popup selector.
On my 486, I went through some trouble ("custom" install, and "select
packages individually") to get rid of X, but I was able to keep the
C compiler and perl. It's tedious, but you can do it.
As far as your swap file issues, have you tried putting the swap file on
the "other" disk? Or, once the system in installed and functioning with a
single disk, install the second disk, use fdisk and mkfs to get it ready,
copy /usr onto it (or something equally big), then mount it on /usr.
> How can I get the second drive enabled for use? Part of the project
> was to get my grandson to start playing with C programing. Would at
> least like to get that module operating.
It should be possible.
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