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Article #823Re: install problem!
From: Johan Lindquist
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 08:58
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 08:58
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<followups to alt.os.linux>
shadow-DAZ wrote:
> I just installed Best Linux distributive... on a sifferent comp though...
> but at the end of the installation it gave an option to create a boot
> floppy, which i certainly did use, so now i have boot floppy and i hope it's
> gonna work, i haven't tried it yet.
It's not going to help you install the other computer. What you should
do is locate the installation floppy images that are most certainly on
your cd and write them to floppies using
#dd if=<image file> of=/dev/fd0
on your installed linux box.
(You will probably have to be root to do this.)
I have no experience whatsoever of this "best linux" distro, but the
standard recommendation seems to be mandrake if you're new to linux. I
use red hat and like it, but others don't. Other well-known options are
debian (semi-hard but very nice when you know it) and slackware
(apparently for the linux veteran who wants more taste and less filling).
hth,
/Johan
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