Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (720 mails)

[chris123@xxxxxxxxx (Chris Herrnberger)]

Greetings:

For practice and recycling purposes I tried to install SUSE 5.1 on a
486DX50 puter i was given at no cost, (huh....ever try buy ram for these
puppies..ouch!!) Any way, I ran into the same bios limitation as it
max;s out at 154. I attached a 2.5 gig hd as slave. got it working
easily (I cheated, istalled linux from my P133 and swithed drives) but
could not get it to boot with out a boot disk on the 486. Not cool, and
not worthy as recycling method...to mush disruption to the user. we live
in a point a click world unfortunately. My project was to build a disc
and method so that I would be able to give friends a loaded SUSE hd,
regardless of machine spec's within reason, and just attach it as slave.

I tried everything to get it to boot from the master disc then posted
(read also the LILO howto). Answere I got back so far is this, but has
not been tested due to lack of time. Others may wish to correct this
scenario if you choose to read this post.

theory:

Set the bios to recognize the primary hd only. Put a 10mg partition on
the primary at the front if possible and place lilo program files in
this partition (this would be labelled as primary in dos but not active,
dos 6.2 resides in the extended partition set as active) edit Lilo to
point to the /boot partion in DOS. Install Lilo in the mbr as always
with the option to toggle to Linux and DOS, now when you call for Linux,
lillo will no point to its own program which will launched and recognize
all drives as it is not dependant on the machine bios at this point in
the boot sequence. the result should be a fuly functional dos disc and a
fully functional Linx disc.  

Practice: this works? anyone try it.

SuSE 5.1 on a 486DX50 at the command line is not appreciably slower than
on my P133, xwindows is a pig with a 1991 ATI 8bit, 1mg Ultra vid
card....be advised...a 30 CDN upgrade for a used vid card is a must, if
you want to run Xwindows. On the otherhand this thing makes an axcellent
firewall, print server, ipmasquarading box, etc for a 20 CDN used
network card.  

Comment and advise?  any would be appreciated.

Chris
Jose Aparicio wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, R. Wise wrote:
> 
> The install fail message consist in not to be able to reboot?
> Have you installed Lilo or make Loadlin installation?
> I suppose you have been able to boot from disk. Please confirm.
> 
> I have installed Linux recently (trying almost all versions) and SuSe gave
> no problems. I use an 'old' p120 with 64M and a Trio32, with 3 HD
> attached.
> I repartioned Drive E and used a 500M partition for Linux and 32M for
> swap. Of course try no to install 'all' or you will collapse the disk
> 
> Please give more info if possible.
> 
> PS: BTW, I am not a linux guru but an W95 user who uses both OSs.
> 
> See you in the Net !!
> 
> jose.aparicio@xxxxxx
> 
> >
> > I cannot seem to be able to install 5.1. I find the manual very poorly
> > written. Can someone please help.
> > My had drive is partitioned as follows C: 1219, D: 476, E: 191, F: 75.
> > The only reason that I installed DOS was to have an operating sys. Since I
> > am using a 486 with an old BIOS I am forced to use a disk manager program.
> > I want the computer to be used only for Linux. If anyone can give me step
> > by step directions it would be greatly appreciated.
> > I tried to install all the packages and received a message that
> > installation failed.
> > The only reason I want to get this up and going now is to learn UNIX, Perl,
> > and hook it up to my network.
> > Sorry for the length of this post but I am getting very frustrated.
> >
> > Thank you
> > rweis@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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