[RULE] Serial cable install

[Mike Cook]

I've had good luck with removing the HD and installing it in another system 
(you will need an adapter if you use a desktop).  On a Thinkpad this is 
easier said than done as the HD is a pain to remove/install.  Just make 
sure you keep an eye on the lid latch and how it goes together.  You will 
need a very minimal install with that small of a HD.  You might want to try 
a mini distribution such as muLinux http://mulinux.sunsite.dk/.  It 
installs under dos on a dos partition and can be cloned to a ext2 
partition.  Also it works well on 486's with 8M of mem. and fits on 1-6 
floppys depending on what you choose to install.  If you use mu it is 
relatively painless to install via floppy.  Hope this helps.
Mike Cook


At 02:07 PM 6/10/03 -0600, you wrote:
>I have an old laptop that I would like to use for very basic RH 8 
>installation (so I can learn Linux while at work).
>
>It is an IBM 486sx Thinkpad, 8 MB RAM, running Win 3.1 on MSDOS 5.02 
>(ouch!) with a monocrome LCD.  It has no CDROM drive, but it has a 3 1/2" 
>floppy, serial/parallel cable ports, and a modem (don't know the baud... 
>probably 9600)...  I believe it has just under 200 MB of harddrive total.
>
>I've not used Linux before so just want to use it to familiarize myself 
>with commands (and take advantage of man/info pages).  It doesn't need any 
>graphical interface (seeing its specs, you can see why :).
>
> >From the above options, what would you suggest I do to install RH?  I've 
> never used serial-to-serial, or modem-to-modem before.  I understand that 
> I would most likely benefit from a boot disk image.  I assume that 
> bootnet.img wouldn't be what I want since I'm not using a network 
> card.  (But who knows?  Maybe I do.)  If you could let me know, it would 
> be great to get me started in setting up.
>
>Steven
>
>
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