[SWLUG] Installing RH via NFS

[Gareth James Powell]

Hi,
  Thanks for looking around for me, I just chose RH5.0 as I found someone  who did an
install floppy set for this version of Linux that had the YE-DATA floppy driver module
which was nice as I had an old RH5.0 cdrom (coverdisk) gathering dust in my collection of
junk. The sad news is that I think I may have blown up one of the computers parports; plip
no longer works at all! Stupid of me to boot into W2K with the cable connected, I think
this configured the data bits as an o/p to my printer while the Tosh was doing the same
with a nibble (so I can guess the range of the damage), I will look on the net sometime to
find some freeware parport tester software (I used a commercial PC testing kit a while
back which used a loopback plug) In the meantime I have ordered a 40 pin to 44 pin
connector (five quid from Maplin) so I can plug the Tosh drive into my old 486 (Suse6.4
box) and do the install that way, then nfs mount the box to setup xfree properly etc. as I
have a Psion PCMCIA network+comms card - not supported by the installer, although I could
mount the initrd.img (loopback) and try fiddling around, does not appeal to me though.
 If this hdd link works (I think the Tosh hdd is compatible?) maybe I should take the
advice to install a later OS as suggested (Debian) Is there a reson to prefer Debs on such
a crufy old laptop say Vs. another newer Linux? 

Regards,
Gareth.

 "Today I will be mostly doing front end transport stream demux drivers"

hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 04:14:20PM +0100 or thereabouts, Dick Porter wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 13:32, Gareth James Powell wrote:
> > >  Hiya all,
> > >          This is my first post to this list (and you guessed it!) its about a problem, or
> > > rather a log of my lack of progress to date. :(
> > >
> > >  I am trying to install RedHat 5.0 on my ageing Toshiba Libretto 50 (with its strange
> > > PCMCIA floppy drive) via an NFS mount using a plip connection from my main box that runs
> > > SuSe 8.0.
> >
> > Why are you installing a distribution from 1999?  If it's because
> > anything newer from redhat refuses to install on such an ageing machine,
> > why not use something like debian?
> 
> Wasn't the problem with many Librettos the PCMCIA weirdness rather
> than anything else? Although yes, I would have said a recent Debian
> rather than RH 5.0!
> 
> I think you can get much more recent RHs onto small machines,
> but it tends to involve a lot of messing about. Somewhere I
> think I have emails or bookmarks about Librettos. I shall try
> to dig them out.
> 
> Telsa
> 
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