On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 21:52 +0000, tsimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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.
