How new would you consider new? It's redhat 8, but I see the images for redhat 7.2 up on the ftp site, would that be old enough? If so, is there still a boot image with speakup on it for that kernel? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Esco" <hesco@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:17 PM Subject: Re: problems installing > If that RedHat image is the new RH9, I would say that it is likely that 1gb > is not nearly enough. Seems like I easily used 2.5 gb of my 4 gb laptop > drive on an RH9 install two months ago, adding only a few packages to the > standard mix. It is certainly possible to put a linux kernel, particularly > an older one on a disk as small as 6 or 800 mb's, I think. But I'd guess > that an autopartitioning script for a newer RedHat install disk would look > for at least twice the space you offered it. Just guessing. > > -- Hugh > > At 10:27 AM 7/30/03 -0400, you wrote: > >Hi all, > >I downloaded the redhat cd images a couple of days ago, and made a boot > >disk last night. I tryed to install it on an old pentium 133 with only a > >one gig hard drive, simply because I wanted the ease of an install without > >having to set up a duel boot system. I don't remember exactly the error I > >got, but the main point is it won't install. It said it's unable to > >partition my hard drive when I select the autopartitioning option from the > >installation. Is this because a one gig hard drive is to small? I > >thought it could be run on something that small, but maybe I'm > >wrong. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this assumtion. > >Chris Schulte > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
