🚀 go-pugleaf

In aus.computers.linux on Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:29:20 GMT
Mikhail Bovineck <Bovineck@heaven.chess.com> wrote:
>
>1) The two machines are talking to each other - I can telnet from the
>486 using a small version of linux on a single floppy which resides in
>ram on the 486.  That is, I can log on to the Pentium and access the
>CDrom.  When I try to start the install command it says "but your
>machine is already running linux, you are mad!" or words to that
>effect.

Well you are :)

To install redhat on the 486, go to the pentium, go to the images
directory on the cdrom, and copy the boot and supplementary 
disks to floppy, and boot the 486 with the bootdisk and go
from there.

the files you want are called boot.img and supp.img
and you copy them (as root or we have to go into changing perms and
I can't be bothered..:))

to copy them:
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0

see man dd for what all that.s about.

Of course if you ahd read the README file in the first dir of your
CDROM you'd know this....  Repeat after me "I Will read README files,
they ahve useful information"


>
>2) I can't seem to copy any files from the CDrom to the 486.  I can
>mount the native linux partition on the 486 using tools that come with
>tomsrtbt ("The most Linux on one floppy disk"), but once I telnet to
>the pentium it's as if I'm actually on that machine and the 486 is
><poof> suddenly gone.

Read the man page for telnet an  understand what it is.

If you don't realise that telnet *is* a way to get on that other
machine, then you need to run, not walk, and get
a book on unix.  You don't know enough yet to run linux.  Don't
bother installing it.

Zebee