[Rule-list] Successful install of V0.1.1 on PC 14

[hairylarry at deltaboogie.com]

Hi,

Rule installed correctly on PC14, a 166 Pentium MMX with 32M ram 
and 540M hd.

I partitioned 64M swap, 32M boot, remainder /

This is probably larger than boot needs to be. Any comments?

According to Slack a good rule of thumb is swap doubles your 
memory. That's what I did here. Would this hold true for 16M or 8M 
systems? Would it hurt and 8M system to use 64M swap? 

I think we have to recommend partition sizes. Making this decision is 
difficult for someone new to linux.

If possible it would be nice to have a partiton script. Will fdisk accept 
commands from a file? A partiton script would also ensure that 
mkswap and mke2fs were run and the mount points specified 
correctly.

I ran vi and I got a no termcap message. I believe this means a 
keyboard was not selected.

I like nano better than vi anyway. Coming from a world of DOS 
editors nano was much more natural for me to use. We need vi and 
emacs running but I vote for nano on the menu. For rule the ease of 
use factor is most important.

How do I get my network installed? Kudzu recognised the NIC. In 
free bsd I would do /stand/sysinstall. Is there a similar program in 
Red Hat for post install configuration?

Thanks, Devon, for the great installer. I will test it with low memory 
and on a 486 soon. 

Are we interested in a wiki? I can host a wiki for this project in my TV 
Soup webspace.

http://tvsoup.com/phpwiki/phpwiki-1.2.2/

Thanks,

Hairy Larry

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