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My answer is "that's what you get for using Red Hat". Some RHL out there got a better answer? (Red Hat lover...) At 07:21 AM 1/15/97 +0500, you wrote: >I need some assistance, and can not attend InstallFest this weekend. > >Equipment: >AMD586-133 CPU, 16 Meg RAM, 428 Meg HDD, Adtapi compatible CD-Rom, 3.5 & >5.25 Floppy's, AVGA2 Video 256K, Serial Mouse, 14.4 Internal Modem, Ether16 >LAN card (Linksys). **Not on a network, that is for future expansion in >house** > >Background: >Partitioned Hard Drive for a primary of 25Meg to use MS/Dos 6.22 on. That >worked fine and booted from "C:" prompt with no problem. Made Red-Hat 4.0 >image disk with RAWRITE to "A:" drive with no problem. Installed Red Hat >4.0 from CD, making two partition 385 Meg hda2 as type 83, and 18 Meg hda3 >as type 82. All went fine. > >Rebooted system, and at LOADLIN I typed in "Linux" and Red Hat Linux >loaded. I could login and go in and look around, decided not to setup >X-Win at this time. Brainstorm hit me (Oops! problem #1, I should of known >better) so I said why not make this machine a complete Linux machine. I >mean that only makes sense, seeing as though I want to learn Linux. > >So I FDISK'ed and got rid of the two Linux hda2 & hda3, then deleted hda1 >also, did a "P" and all was gone. Then I loaded MS-Dos from a floppy and >did also an FDISK with DOS to ensure that everything was gone, which it >was. Hey this is going to be easy. > >Now Help: >I installed the IMAGE Red Hat disk and booted the system. The Red Hat >install program came up. I re partitioned the hard disk into hda1 (410 >Meg, type 83) and hda2 into (18 Meg, type 82) just like before, and did a >"W" command. Continued through the install and selected the programs I did >as before (almost all of them). The install started fine, and said that >there was something like 194 Meg to install, no problem, I have the space. >The install gets through about 180-185 Meg then it decides to reboot the >computer. Huh! > >I go through the complete procedure and steps again. Install gets to about >the same point, and guess what. REBOOT. > >So I saw what the heck, I'll do this one more time. Get's to about the >same point and REBOOT. HELP!!! > >Ok! I want to learn Linux, so I decide to try my 5-CD set of Slackware. I >make the two IMAGE disks needed. Do FDISK, then SETUP, and Configure. >Reboot the system, and Linux comes up. Login to "ROOT" do some snooping >around (I love CLI) things look good. I'm a novice at this Linux, so >anything might look right. I type in PINE, TIN, VI they all seem to work >fine. I even got DOOM game to come up. I tried X-Win, but as I didn't >configure it, I knew it wouldn't make it. No surprise when I got an error. > So I said Ok, SLACKWARE works, but I want "RED HAT 4.0" as it was >recommended to me. (Oops! is the this going to be Problem #2) > >So last night I said what the heck, I'm going to "TRY" and reinstall RED >HAT 4.0 on the machine. Well I started from scratch, redid the FDISK, >etc... It got to about the same 180-185 Meg installed part, and REBOOTED. > >ANY IDEAS??? > >Thanks in advance. I can be reached through this list, or at jbr at star.net. > > Have a nice day, > Take care, > Barry... > > > > >For 93 million miles, there is nothing between the sun and my shadow except >me. I'm always getting in the way of something... > > > > > > -------- Rodney Thayer <rodney at sabletech.com> PGP Fingerprint: BB 1B 64 28 40 91 29 AC 07 6B 9D E1 4C 25 0D D8
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