kernel4x
08-17-2001, 12:56 PM
Hi folks,
it's me again ...
i want to do something out with one of my old trash 386.
it has a 50MB of harddisk space and 4MB of RAMs ...
i hav some 3C509 and RTL8019 ISA NICs....
i hav a small ethernet network of 15 computers which Win9x, W2K and RH6.2 are running....
the W2K servers are directly attached to the 10/100 Mbps switch while others are connected via 10Mbps Hubs.
now, my question is how can i set up RedHat 6.2 on my 386 machine over a network.
i will really apprecite to u guys if i can make something out from that trash.
Zoist
08-19-2001, 08:03 AM
Do the install like any other box but in console mode only.
Deselct ALL the GUI packages etc...
Find out what ID, and IRQ your NIC has, and use the correct driver. Enter the info in the network settings by running at the prompt: linuxconf or /sbin/linuxconf
Looking at the manual usually tells you all the information needed.
Make sure that Samba is also installed and set up. To make things a lot easier, get a program called Webmin http://www.webmin.com and do everything in there.
Don't forget to give your nic a local IP not used by another machine.
Hope this helps. :))
[ 19 August 2001: Message edited by: Zoist ]
ds801
08-19-2001, 07:04 PM
To answer you last question, about how to install Linux over a network, Red Hat comes with different floppy images for different install methods. AFAIK, RH only has an FTP and an NFS boot floppy, so you'd have to have either an FTP server running on another box, or have a Linux box running as an NFS server. However, I don't think Red Hat 6.2 will run on the hardware you have.
I recently went on an quest to find a version of Linux that would work on a 486sx laptop, 4 MB ram, 250MB HD. I found some good lists of Linux distros on www.ibiblio.org (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/), and www.linux.org (http://www.linux.org/dist/english.html). I found a number of distros that would work on 386 and 486 cpu's, but the problem was that they all required a minimum of 8MB ram. Another factor was the lack of a math co-processor, which means the distro had to be designed to compensate.
The only distro I found that seemd workable was Monkey Linux (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/monkey/), but the problem is it comes as 5 *.arj images. Arj is like *.zip files, but the problem I had was that the only program that would successfully unpack the files was an ACTUAL copy of the Arj program. Every other program I tried, including the unarj programs that come with Linux, all had problems unpacking everything completely.
Linux wasn't really designed to be run on such old hardware, and if you can get it working, it would be command-line only. Honestly, I'd suggest you install Windows 3.11 (Windows for Workgroups) on that box (if you've got a copy around). Not only will it handle that hardware better, but you'll also get a useable GUI.
[ 19 August 2001: Message edited by: ds801 ]