[CLUE-Tech] Upgrading to Red Hat V7.2 - Experiences?

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Jed S. Baer wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 15:20:41 GMT
> <jimintriglia at americanisp.net> wrote:
>
> > With respect to my Dell 200MHz MMX Pentium I PC, I could not boot of the
> > RH V7.2
> > Binary CD *at all*. Red Hat Tech Support tells me that my CD-ROM drive
> > is 'too
> > old', with respect to the PC's refusal to boot off of the Red Hat
> > upgrade CD-ROM
> > (Binary CD#1).
>
> Dumb question. Has this PC ever successfully booted from CD? I don't
> remember quite when PC BIOSes got to the point of loading the boot block
> from a CD, but a P1 sounds pretty old for that capability.

Nah. I've got a few old P133 & P166 machines that boot from CD just
fine -- I've never tried installing Red Hat on them, but Slackware
and Debian slide right on. The CD *might* be the problem, but probably
not the BIOS.

> Hmmm. Have you searched the kernel mailing list archives? The "large
> image" doesn't ring true for me. It's quite easy to build a kernel which
> is too large for a floppy, OTOH, a kernel with ATA/CDROM/Old-CD/ support
> wouldn't be that big.

Is the kernel image too large, or does the CD-ROM use a 2.88MB floppy
"image" ? I know Slackware now uses a 2.88MB image that causes problems
with some bioses.

Take care,

Zonker
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