On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 21:52 +0000, tsimi(a)speakeasy.net wrote:
Hi,
I have a friend that is using a box I setup for him several years ago with RedHat 7.2. I
think he would really like FC and would like to send him a hard drive with already
installed, as he is not an OS/Hardware guy.
Is it possible for me to install an IDE drive in my machine ( Pentium 486 D )
Didn't Intel call the "586" processor family "Pentium" because
they
couldn't trademark numbers?
(my point being how can a "Pentium" also be "486"?)
and load FC4 on it in a generic enough for that will run on his
older, probably Pentium II machine?
Probably.
If everything is modular, won't the initrd be incorrect? Can I
force the installation to use a generic IDE driver?
I think the "generic" IDE driver is built into the kernel rather than
being a module so that shouldn't be a problem. It might be useful to see
what's in the current initrd for that machine though
(the /etc/modules.conf file should reveal what's needed).
Paul.