Carlos, et al -- ...and then Carlos E. R. said... % % % The 03.07.17 at 06:21, David T-G wrote: % % > That is a theoretical possibility. However, as I have no available video % > card, no USB keyboard (it doesn't have a PS/2 kbd or mouse port), and no % > CD drive handy, I'm pretty much out of luck there. % % Then you can remove the hard disk, plug it somewhere else, install, and % plug it back. I did that for my 386SX-20... Not only does that take down my gateway for the time required to install, but I have to get another machine into which I can plug the drive. If I had that, I'd probably have video, kbd, and cd as well :-) % % Notice that the only package that is tuned somewhat to the microprocesor % is the kernel: the rest are just generic pentium nowdays, I think. Makes sense. Tricky to load on a 486, but makes sense :-) % % % Alternatively, I read somewhere that you can use the serial port as a % console (remote), and perhaps even the main one; but I don't know if this % applies to the install. This is configured in inittab. With lilo it's easy to set up a serial console (I even contributed changes to the doc that comes with the kernel, though I don't think they were ever included *sniff*). I don't know if the SuSE disks support it, but without a CD drive from which to boot (not to metion the adventures of makign it boot from CD instead of from the hard drive) it's a moot question anyway. % % -- % Cheers, % Carlos Robinson /me wonders if someone could just build a basic system, tar it up, and send it on for me to spit out and then update via yast... :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!