[SWLUG] Installing RH via NFS

[Gareth James Powell]

Hi all,
      I found out the problem with my laplink cable, it was a broken
solder joint. The parports seem ok as I have been able to test them
both under Linux :-) Not that the install was via plip, the solution
was in the five quid HDD adaptor I bought from Maplin, it was then so
painless to install.

 My Tosh now has something called Definite (sp?) Linux on it, A RedHat
derivative that (Yipee!) knows about my PCMCIA netcard, runs KDE
1.1.1, Gnome and associated apps at a reasonable if not zippy pace. I
don't think I will try anything a little more bloaty until I get a
bigger HDD and up the ram to 32Mb.

 The usage is as follows for my 800Mb disk: 64Mb swap, the rest for
'/' with the install leaving 100Mb free, enough for some lightweight
embedded stuff and adding the floppy kmodule which may, I think, need
a kernel (2.2) patch.

 I tried RH5.0, SuSe (8.0 & 6.4) and some other crufty distros (bless
the freebie coverdisks) as a test, all ran ok with various success in
reconfiguration via the installer tools once the disk was back on the
Tosh (and I thought the days of hacking X configs on PCs was over)

Regards,
Gareth.