Re: Upgrade of 486

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 08:47:06 -0400 "Joe Commisso" <jemco twcny rr com>
spake unto us:

> Greetings:
> 
> _My_ 486 won't take RH 7.
> Version 4.2 works though.
> Is there any advantage that this box may have in doing a network install
> and
> if so, are there step-by-step detailed instructions available?
> 
> When I install RH 7, it seems to work OK off the CD, then when I do the
> restart or reboot, I find that many files and directories are missing.
> After the reboot, it doesn't recognize the keyboard due to the above
> reason.
> 
> I really have no other reason to think that the box is defective...

I'm not clear what you're asking. Are you thinking it might work better
installing over a network? If so, I doubt that. Do you mean using it to
provide the source directories for a netowrk install? If that's it, I
don't see any gain there expect to allow more than one box to read from it
while doing a network install. That would allow others not to have CD
drives and/or preclude the necessity to move CDs around.

As for the description of how installing 7 on the 486 wnet, it sounds like
what happened to me once when I ran out of space during an install (around
the 5.x era). The installation just decided to leave some things out when
it wouldn't fit. The things chosen weren't good selections and I got tons
of errors when I booted it. Adding a hard drive helped later but, I
managed to determine that was the problem by installing a whole lot less
stuff and booting successfully. Might be worth a try, anyway.

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