Re: I can't get a linux window

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From: Eric Gillespie
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 00:00

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Richard O'Keefe <rokeefe@ameritech.net> wrote in message
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> According to the magazines' instructions, all I had to do after the
> "successful installation" and reboot was type linux at the $prompt .
> I tried typing linux at the $prompt and at the # prompt in several
> different directories.  I always get a bad command message.

Um.  If you are getting a # or $ prompt, you're IN linux, and it has worked.

Must go...

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