The 03.07.17 at 19:30, David T-G wrote:
...and then Carlos E. R. said...
% 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 :-)
Well... even on a home network - is it? I'm unsure if you mentioned it - or a bussiness production machine, upgrading any critical machine live, without a backup, is a no-no :-)
% % 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 :-)
In my case, I used suse 6.4, which assumes a 386. I only neede to recompile the kernel for the 386. Suse 8.2 I'm unsure if it assumes a 486 or a 586 for packages.
% % 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*).
Good to know I wasn't mistaken.
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.
You might boot from a diskete, and tell it to use an ftp source.
/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
Now, that is not an absurd idea! You could perhaps make a minimun install on _any_ machine, and then copy everything by ftp there. Just make sure to use the appropiate kernel, and to adjust lilo as needed. Of course, you always need another machine. As long as you don't try to install X, it will be fine. Or it should ;-) But don't count on me to tar it up for you! X-) I don't have the bandwidth, anyway. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson