[olug] CD Boot problems and Network Installs Slow Speed

[Mike Peterson]

I had the same problem with Redhat 8.0 on a Pentium 233 with an older CD ROM
Drive in it.

I did a network install via HTTP and then the IDE Controller started acting
up.
I switched to a P III 450 and all is working fine.
I have Redhat 8.0 network install setup on 2 internet accessible servers.

If anyone is interested send me an email off list?

I did 10 network installs last night for a class and only 7 completed.
3 blue screened during the package gather step.
I did 3 test runs and the installs took 2-3 hours.
One test run was from a P4 Windows XP Apache Server and
Two test runs were from external and internal Redhat 8.0 Servers.

Last night with Redhat 8.0 and Apache 2.0 that comes with it deploying
Redhat 8.0 it took 4.5 hours for all to complete up to the restart step.

Has anyone worked with speeding up Apache 2.0 performance yet?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Grothe" <grothe at earthlink.net>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [olug] Mandrake CD


> I had a similar problem with Redhat 8.0.  We had a machine that could boot
> off of the cd-rom but couldn't boot off the 8.0 cd-roms.  Our machines
were
> old Microns Pentium 166s to give you an idea of about where I think the
> cut off is.
>
> Mandrake 9.0 moved from using syslinux to isolinux.  Syslinux emulates a
> 2.88mb floppy at the front of the cd-rom, isolinux doesn't.
>
> You'll have to cut the boot floppies and install with those.
>
> Regards,
>
> Aaron
> =-=-=
> "The Journey is the Reward" - Old Zen Buddhist Saying
>
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Nate <tbrownarcher at cox.net>
> Sent: 01/16/03 08:26 PM
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: [olug] Mandrake CD
>
> >
> > I was trying to install the CD's (iso"s) I downloaded for Mandrake 9.0.
>  This Set of CD's don't seem to be Bootable.  Has anyone else
> noticed this and is it fixable?
>
> Thanks,
> Nate
>
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