problems installing

[Christopher Schulte]

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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