IBM 755CD

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>>
A question to mandrake though.. As far a I can see Mandrake is only a repackaged
RHL 6.0, with everything recompiled for the Pentium. Is that right ? Or are
there
other differences ?
<<

The version of Mandrake 6 that I've got has some updated packages, including
kernel 2.2.9.

-- Keith

Keith Frechette
Linux Development Lead, Mobile Computing Options and Software Development
IBM Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
kfrechet@us.ibm.com / 919-543-3761 / TieLine:441-3761


Bill Mair <bill.mair@mail.bm-soft.com> on 08/03/99 06:59:02 AM

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Frank 'Crash' Edwards wrote:

> > >You could mount the CD on another machine and make it available by FTP
> > >or NFS, then boot off the floppy and perform a network install.
> >
> > That's an idea. I'll have to get a cable and try that. Thanks for the the
> > suggestion.
>
> I expected to hear, "Nope, no PC Card slots on this machine." (!)

He he.

> I had an old 486 laptop without a CDROM drive.  And the clone manufacturer
> used some PCMCIA chipset that the bootdisk images wouldn't recognize, so
> no CDROM, no network, only the floppy.

That is how I installed RHL 5.2 on my 701, the ftp install refused to work, so I
ended up having to use nfs. Has RH fixed this with 6.0 ?

A question to mandrake though.. As far a I can see Mandrake is only a repackaged
RHL 6.0, with everything recompiled for the Pentium. Is that right ? Or are
there
other differences ?

Bill.