Re: not able to install linux on pentium 100

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From: Harold Henry
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:00

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Is it where you installed linux and it will not boot or cannot install at all.

What size Hard disk , what type CDROM (IDE SCSI etc...)
I have had to add linear before on my old Pentium 100 with a 2 gig drive.
in the lilo.conf 

In article <38B52733.B4F31DE9@gmx.net>,
	Mechthild Huebscher <aoxomoxoa@gmx.net> writes:
> hi,
> 
> i tried to install linux (both suse 6.3 and redhat 6.1)
> on a  olivetti modulo m4 p100. 
> this didnt work.
> i can boot from disk or cdrom, but then, e.g. when i
> press <return> on "boot:"..(suse)......then theres
> written:"loading initrd" but then it doesnt happen 
> anything more, just a black screen.
> when i was booting from disk there ist was:"loading
> initdisk.gz" but then also the black screen and nothing
> more.......
> what do i make wrong?
> are there maybe any computers that dont like linux? :-((((
> 
> help please, i really dont understand wheres the problem 
> 
> mechthild huebscher
> 
> ps: i installed linux before on two other pcs, this
>     worked fine

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From: hhenry@hst.nasa.gov (Harold Henry)
Subject: Re: not able to install linux on pentium 100
Date: 2000/02/24
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