🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 12 May 1997 01:04:43 +0800, Dimitri Maziuk
<dima@eris.dev.null> wrote:

>Terry Wood wrote:
>> I thought i might try and install linux on it for something to do so i
>> put in the RedHat Linux 4.1 Boot disk and gets to the screen that asks
>> me if i have a color screen and i select NO, then it continues on for
>> a little while and stops with a blank screen and the cursor flashing.
>
>I've no experience with RedHat, but AFAIK it installs X straight
>away and gives you nice GUI install/sysadmin shell then -- which
>isn't what you want on a low-memory, mono screen box.

This machine has 4mb of ram, but it was previsouly running Slackware
1.2.13 with squid, apache, etc (believe it or not! :) until i ditched
if for a much better machine and installed 2.0.29 rh4.1 on it.  Now
this lowely machine is doing nothing i thought i would put together
all my old h/ware (which i know is working fine) and make a small
linux box.  

It doesnt get to the stage where it even asks if i want to do a ftp
install or anything it just sits at an orange screen doing nothing
after it asks if i have a color monitor or not, i can change consoles
to see the ^F3 'Stage 1 Redhat linux 4.1' (not exactly those words,
but something to that effect) and another console with the dmesg
startup info..  

There are no errors reported and the machine hasnt locked up, its just
sitting there doing nothing.. I have used this machine with linux
before as i said and at the moment i have MS-DrOS installed on it with
MSClient and it communicates with TCP/IP and IPX/SPX to my lan no
worries... No problems there.

Weird hey.


Catch ya,
          Woody   <woody@{spam.bites}netspace.net.au>
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Terry J. Wood,
Located at Traralgon, Gippsland
Country Victoria, Australia