[ale] RedHat 5.2 and an Intel 386

[jeff_hubbs at mcgraw-hill.com]

Alternatively, your CD-ROM may be of the type that uses a proprietary card a la
Sony.  I had thought the common ones were recognized.

If it turns out that you can't get your CD-ROM going from the boot floppy but
you can get an Ethernet card into your 386, then maybe a network installation is
the ticket.  If you can get another machine Linuxed and put on your network, you
can either share out its CD-ROM via NFS or Samba or do what I'm doing now -
copying the CD to disk where it can be FTPed to.  I haven't had good luck with
NFS lately, but FTP installs have been absholutely mahvelous; YMMV.  It's even
nicer if your network is switched and nicer still if it's switch Fast Ethernet
running full duplex.  Vroom.

- Jeff





jester1 at mindspring.com on 05/17/99 11:23:42 AM

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To:   ale at ale.org
cc:    (bcc: Jeff Hubbs/Tower)

Subject:  [ale] RedHat 5.2 and an Intel 386




Well, this is my first foray into the Linux world.  I've got a 386
that I'm trying to install RedHat 5.2 on and i'm having some problems.

The first problem is that RedHat doesn't recognize my CD-ROM drive.

I've tried to follow the instructions in the installation guide, but
they haven't worked.  I figured I'd install a newer CD-ROM in the
machine, but when I went to do it I found that the bus cable didn't
have enough pins.

Is there any way, short of getting another box, that I can solve this?

Any ideas are appreciated.  For right now i'm not averse to putting
off the install until I get a newer PC and can turn my P133 into my
Linux machine, but I'd really like to get this 386 cranking Linux.

Thanks,

Jester



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