problems installing

[Janina Sajka]

Older is not better, and it's the wrong answer, for heaven's sake.

Instead, be smarter about what you're doing. Don't expect the automated
tools to think. They only have their builtin logic, and it may not be
programmed for extreme circumstances like hardware from 7 years ago.

Instead, read and think and supply specific parameters.

1.)	Use DiskDruid and do the partition sizes yourself. I'd do
between 64 and 128 for slash, about 32 for /home, and the rest for
/usr--just to get started.

2.)	Be smarter about what class of installation you select. Server
Class will give you more of what you want, and a lot less of what you
don't want. 

3.)	Be smart about the package groups you select. Clearly, youy
don't want anything to do with X, GNOME, or KDE on this size system. As
you select packages, you'll get a readout on the total size of the
system. Play around with this for awhile, and you'll find you can make
it fit.

Christopher Schulte writes:
> From: "Christopher Schulte" <cschulte at netsportsradio.com>
> 
> How new would you consider new?  It's redhat 8, but I see the images for
> redhat 7.2 up on the ftp site, would that be old enough?  If so, is there
> still a boot image with speakup on it for that kernel?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Hugh Esco" <hesco at greens.org>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:17 PM
> Subject: Re: problems installing
> 
> 
> > If that RedHat image is the new RH9, I would say that it is likely that
> 1gb
> > is not nearly enough.  Seems like I easily used 2.5 gb of my 4 gb laptop
> > drive on an RH9 install two months ago, adding only a few packages to the
> > standard mix.  It is certainly possible to put a linux kernel,
> particularly
> > an older one on a disk as small as 6 or 800 mb's, I think.  But I'd guess
> > that an autopartitioning script for a newer RedHat install disk would look
> > for at least twice the space you offered it.  Just guessing.
> >
> > -- Hugh
> >
> > At 10:27 AM 7/30/03 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Hi all,
> > >I downloaded the redhat cd images a couple of days ago, and made a boot
> > >disk last night.  I tryed to install it on an old pentium 133 with only a
> > >one gig hard drive, simply because I wanted the ease of an install
> without
> > >having to set up a duel boot system.  I don't remember exactly the error
> I
> > >got, but the main point is it won't install.  It said it's unable to
> > >partition my hard drive when I select the autopartitioning option from
> the
> > >installation.  Is this because a one gig hard drive is to small?  I
> > >thought it could be run on something that small, but maybe I'm
> > >wrong.  Please correct me if I'm wrong on this assumtion.
> > >Chris Schulte
> >
> >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175