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Re: Installation Party Summary
On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Ira Abramov wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Omer Zak wrote:
>
> > Even if not, copythe relevant files to the user's hard disk's DOS
> > partition and then install from there. After installation is complete,
> > the DOS partition can be cleaned.
>
> people don't always come with enough space to install linux (many thought
> under 100 is enough, and you KNOW that's not true), so you expect them to
> have enough for the entire installation too? not everybody owns a Pentium
> with 2 gigs of disk... I had a guy with a 486 and only 850...
Then do the installation at two stages. First, copy one half of the
packages to the small DOS partition, install, then erase them and copy
the other packages. In fact this is how I installed Linux on someone's
PC after creating 100MB DOS partition there.
> > BTW: what is ATI? (Personal replies only! Not to the list. Don't
>
> one of the most famous/popular graphic accelerators in the market... it's
> like dropping names like Cirus logic a year ago or trident two years
> before
I asked for a personal-only reply but this reply found its way also to
Linux-IL. So even oldtimers fail to read simple requests.
AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!
(Nevermind the scarlet of shame on my cheeks due to the revelation of
the shameful secret that I didn't know about ATI.)
--- Omer
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