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Message-ID: <20020315104225.A9952@openwall.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:42:25 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Installing on old machine
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 06:37:03PM +0100, Stephan Lagerholm wrote:
Hi Stephan,
Michael has already posted several useful hints, so I'll just provide
some official answers.
> Im trying to install OWL
It's Owl, please. ;-)
> on an old x86-P90 with 16 meg memory that are unable to boot via CD-rom.
That's fine.
> Questions:
>
> 1. I have bootable redhat on the hd, can that be used in some way to
> force the machine to boot from cdrom?
As Michael has explained, yes. But an easier way should work, see below.
> 2. Is it possible at all to install on that machine? Performance is not
> an issue here. As far as I remeber RedHat told me that it needed to
> turn on swap right away during installation in order to succed.
I _think_ 8 MB is the minimum for our installation CD. But I haven't
actually tested with so little memory myself. If you do, please let
us know the results. If there're any problems installing with your
16 MB, we'll fix that as a bug. That is clearly a reasonable amount
of memory to support.
> 3. The boot floppy don't give the cdrom as an option to boot from. Have I
> missed something here?
Yes, I think you have missed something, -- that all options it gives
work for CD-ROM's. Just pick the right device.
--
/sd
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