At 4/8/01 02:48 PM -0500, you wrote:
> >How'd you do the install on 8MB? My tiny little box doesn't have a CD-ROM,
> >but it does have a network card. However, RH7 boot disks say it needs 20MB
> >RAM to do an FTP install.
>
>Oh, you know what, now that I think about it, I used Red Hat 5.2. The
>PS/2e is a tiny, laptop-sized desktop box, whose only expansion ports
>are (ready for this?) PCMCIA. That's pretty unhelpful. So I took it
>apart, and discovered that the PCMCIA slots were actually on a
>standard ISA board, which was plugged into a single lonely ISA slot.
>I pulled it, replaced it with a 3Com 509, and did a network install.
"Network install" means FTP, HTTP, or NFS? 5.2 went into 8 MB?
My box is similar, but the lonely ISA slot has a riser into which is
plugged an Ethernet card (acme brand, I think).
>It's a completely useless machine; I only did it to prove that I
>could. What better way to spend a lazy Sunday?
I disagree; I want it as my firewall, NAT, DHCP box for the house. I think
it should be able to handle the traffic from three computers just fine...
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