On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 06:37:03PM +0100, Stephan Lagerholm wrote: Hi Stephan, Michael has already posted several useful hints, so I'll just provide some official answers. > Im trying to install OWL It's Owl, please. ;-) > on an old x86-P90 with 16 meg memory that are unable to boot via CD-rom. That's fine. > Questions: > > 1. I have bootable redhat on the hd, can that be used in some way to > force the machine to boot from cdrom? As Michael has explained, yes. But an easier way should work, see below. > 2. Is it possible at all to install on that machine? Performance is not > an issue here. As far as I remeber RedHat told me that it needed to > turn on swap right away during installation in order to succed. I _think_ 8 MB is the minimum for our installation CD. But I haven't actually tested with so little memory myself. If you do, please let us know the results. If there're any problems installing with your 16 MB, we'll fix that as a bug. That is clearly a reasonable amount of memory to support. > 3. The boot floppy don't give the cdrom as an option to boot from. Have I > missed something here? Yes, I think you have missed something, -- that all options it gives work for CD-ROM's. Just pick the right device. -- /sd
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