I have always installed RH on a stand alone Pentium class PC with a larger
hard drive.
Now I want to install on a 486 that I have upgraded. This is a old AST
Advantage Pro that I bought new in 1993 and have been using as a windows
print server! I want to use RH as a print server ..file server and router
for my cable modem. I have upgraded my 486 over the years so that it now is
running a Kingston Overdrive AMD 586 /133....64 megs of FPM RAM and a
Promise EIDE Max controller that adds LBA support to the existing channel
up to 8 GB and provides a secondary controller channel for a total of four
drives. It does this by updating your existing BIOS. It is also Linux
compatible.
This controller works out best if I set things up with a original 524 meg
drive as a primary master ....a original120 meg drive as a slave plugged
into the original on board IDE controller ......and then a 6 GB drive as a
master on the secondary channel with a CDROM as the slave. If I try to use
the 6 GB drive on the primary master it works but it isn't as stable.
Overriding the on board BIOS causes some problems. However with a small CHS
drive on the primary master and slave things are solid.
Question how can i best install RH 6.2 on this setup ? I am thinking of
putting a root partition and a home partition on the 524 meg drive. then
use the 125 meg drive as the swap file. Then put everything else on the 6GB
drive.
Rather then trying to figure out the packets I have always told RH setup to
install everything but this time I only want to install what I need. I will
install X Windows to facilitate setting things up but will I be running
the server in command mode.
So what should I tell RH NOT to install?
Thanks
morse
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