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John van der Veur wrote:

> Hi Louis,
> >
> >see postings before this one, (same problems ) but, first have you enough
> >disk space ?
>
> I have set aside a 600 mb partition for Lunix and another 100 mb
> partition for the Swap File.
>
> >So, how about posting your machine specs to focus solutions for your
> >probs.
>
> The machine I have installed it on is a Pentium 75.  The visio card is
> an ATI Mach 64 which was recognised when probed by Xconfigurator.
>
> I am having trouble accessing the CD drive even after mounting it.
> The command I used to mount the cddrive is:
>
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>
> (The command is what is suggested in the APC Pocketbook)
>
> Thanks for you help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
> >
> >Louis
> >

Hi John,

Hmm, try "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom " and don't worry about the parameters,
default specs ought to work.

and how much system RAM have you ? 8,16,24,32 Mb ?  Swap file has a max of
128Mb.  That may be a clue.

Also make sure that when you install linux, at the disk Druid prompt, you not
only remove the D logical drive, but also the Extended partition. You ought
to then have your original DOS partition, (/dev/hda1) and buckets of free
space.

Then install Linux using the default "Workstation" settings., making
available all that free space to Linux. You have to be able to put in another
primary partition for Linux to boot from, 23 Mb by memory.  the rest can be
an extended partition/logical drive.  Also choose Lilo and load it into MBR,
so that you can boot from either DOS or Linux

Experiment and see how you go.

:-)
Louis