Re: [RULE] Introduction

[C David Rigby]

Hi Gabriel,

        And welcome!  All contributions are appreciated.

	FC2 will probably not install directly on your portable, due to the low 
RAM.  Indeed, extending the slinky installer to cover FC2 is a current 
goal of the project.  If you would like to review some of the things 
that Marco and I have been working on in terms of design a new website, 
check out the test server here:  http://rule-test.homelinux.org/.  Other 
folks are doing other things - I'll let them chime in for themselves.

	Do you have a PCMCIA NIC for your laptop?  On similarly configured 
machines (I have a Dell Latitude 486DX4-100 w/ 16 MB of RAM that is 
currently running RULE-ified RedHat 9 - no CD-ROM at all) network 
installs are the easiest way to go.  I can email to you my installation 
report for this machine if you like.  How large is the HDD in the 
computer?  Something that occurs to me is to add support to the 
installer, or create a variant installer, that can create a small 
bootable partition on the HDD that can then run an installtion off of 
the HDD, accessing the RPMs on the CD-ROM.  That partition could later 
be recovered as /tmp or some such.

Regards,
CDRigby
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Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
> Hello, I'm new to the list.  When I subscribed it suggested that I
> introduce myself, so.....
>
> My name is Gabriel Beddingfield.  I'm a Mechanical Engineer.  I'm also a
> hobbyist computer geek -- with most of my chops in numerical computing.
>  I'm an intermediate C/C++ programmer.  I have almost no knowledge of
> systems programming.  I am new to Linux, with some experience with Unix
> during college.  I'm a high-level Win***s user.
>
> I'd like to participate in the RULE project for the same reasons as many
> of you.  But in the end, I hope that my involvement with RULE will bring
> glory to Jesus Christ -- by serving each of you, the poor, and the
> community.  Many of you have other motivations -- and I'm OK with
> that... not opposed in the least.  Nevertheless, this is mine.
>
> I plan to try FC2 (Marco's suggestion) on a Dell Latitude LM P100-SD
> with 16MB of ram.  The machine already has OpenBSD on it.  The trick I
> see in this installation is that the floppy drive has to be removed in
> order to use the CD-ROM.  I don't think it is hot-swappable, and I can't
> boot from a CD-ROM.  I indeed plan to scour over pages of documentation,
> RTFM, STFW,  and STFA... but if anyone would like to cut to the chase...
> please...
>
> Peace,
> Gabriel
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