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RedHat - Infomagic 6-cd set



Hello group members, and a 'pre Happy New year wishes' to all of you (who
stayed on this list). And may the next year of the list will be
on-topics as much as this year was off-topics !.

My question is regarding the RedHat Piccasso 3.0.3 distribution comes
with Infomagic development 6-CD set, of April 96.

I'm currently using Slackware 3.0, without any problems. I thought of
giving RedHat a 'test-drive', and I have a spare partition to do so.

I spent few hours trying to install RedHat from the CD-ROM without any
success.

There are Three installation option I've tried -

1) with a single boot floppy, and the rest from the CD-ROM.

2) with a boot and two root disks - loaded as a ramdisk.

3) from dos, running redhat.exe, creating the configuration file by it
and loading the kernel image to memory and on.., got stack at the
point of mounting root read-only

None of these options worked for me.

I've tried kernel command line parameters: 

  ramdisk=3000, root=/dev/fd0

  root=/dev/hdc hdc=cdrom ramdisk=256

  ramdisk hdc=cdrom,

and other combinations of these options.

I have a DX-33 486, with only 8-MB of RAM, with an ACER 8x CD-ROM,
(IDE-ATAPI on /dev/hdc) - working perfectly fine with Slackware.

At one point I've succeeded loading both root disks to ramdisk, and
receive the message: "..Redhat setup program.. wait it might take few
minutes", and almost immediately - "Not enough memory, Shutting Down".

And of course I think I've picked the right kernel image to support
IDE CDROM.  (kernel0000.img).

The message on boot shows it recognize hdc as CD-ROM
(mount.. iso96.. - message)
What do I do wrong ?, am I missing something  ?.

Regards,
	Yossi A.