Re: [Rule-list] preparing richard's laptop

[Richard Kweskin]

Hello all

Got further along now but it locked up early in the formatting / filesystem 
(twice.)

The details

1 Desktop has rh 7.2 cd1 mounted and nfs exported.
2 Boot laptop with pcmcia.img 0.7.0 typed linux dd updates
3 pcmciadd 0.7.0
4 at drivers disk prompt inserted drvblock 0.7.0
5 left lang & keyboard at defaults
6 using nfs, static IP (as is desktop)
7 inserted newest 1.4mb updates image disk 0.7.0-a
8 chips & tech 65548 pci video not probed
9 dstn screen not probed
10 sees the mouse stick as generic 3 button ps/2 so I change to generic 2 
button ps/2 & no emulation for 3 buttons
11 accepted default of laptop installation (though previous attempt I chose 
low mem option with same ultimate lockup)
12 Having fdisked, (from previous attempt) hda (the only hdd, size 1.2 gb) 
and already had:
hda1    51mb    ext3    /boot
hda2    64mb    swap
hda3    1179mb  ext3    /

I thought to accept the default auto partition & deleting all existing 
partitions this time.
It came up with

hda1    49mb    ext3    /boot
hda2    1055mb  ext3    /
hda3    190mb   swap

(I think putting swap in hda2 makes it slightly faster access but didn't 
argue this time.)

13 Accepted default of grub in mbr
14 added no special options to pass to kernel
15 No other os's but rh
16 no additional langs
17 one ordinary user besides root (shame it made me give a 6 character 
password for user)
18 package groups selected were network support and dialup support, no 
individual selections
19 Just starts to format / filesystem and locks up
Richard
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