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Re: Installing RH 5.1 on a notebook

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony Tibbs)
Mon Nov 30 19:45:59 1998

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:25:31 -0500
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From: Anthony Tibbs <tibbsa@usa.net>
In-Reply-To: <3662461A.6914FC01@iname.com>
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>> Question:  Is it possible to install across PLIP, if I can get a basic
>> system installed?  And how would I go about setting this up?  (Not to
>> mention, how would I go about making up the basic system disks?)
>
>You can do a PLIP install.   If you're new at linux, the only way to go
>is to get the RH5.2 (not RH5.1) CD and book, which contains plenty
>of good instructions.

Are you talking about the boxed version from Redhat themselves?

>All the fixes available for 5.1 are already in 5.2, without having to
>apply 85mb of upgrades.

Right, but there are also likely new bugs ... :-)


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