On Tuesday 01 Jul 2008 16:34, Arun Khan wrote:
On Tuesday 01 Jul 2008, jtd wrote:
On Tuesday 01 Jul 2008 14:50, Arun Khan wrote:
On Tuesday 01 Jul 2008, jtd wrote:
I have yet to come across a machine on which you cant install a linux distro.
Way back, a colleague had picked up a Compaq rack mount server (dot com bust auction) with a WinNT server installation. We were unable to install; we tried RH, Mandrake, Caldera. The install would hang.
For such machines, use a boot server and image file.
I did not know about this technique back in 2000. Even today, though I am aware of it, I have not tried it yet.
Or dd a minimal install to the disk. connect the disk to another machine to do this.
In the specific machine, all the disks were part of hardware raid - we did not want to mess with it's setup.
Ah scsi. You would definetly need a custom kernel back then.
In the distant past, in many cases where installations were bombing, running memory check showed up bad ram.
Hmm. how do you do this if the system fails to boot some sort of live cd (with mem test tools)?
the image is the kernel with memtest. Not loading even this would be something.
But there is always a first time.