installing linux problem

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From: Darrin Lingle
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 00:00

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help.
i'm stuck. i can't install linux.  i put all the disks on my computer. i made a
scsi boot disk and tried the dos and color root disks.
i boot up fine on the boot disk, typing mount, it then asks me for my root disk
so i put that in and i says to logon as root and then type setup.
i type setup and get an error that there's no native linux partition setup. i
then wipe my drive, create an empty partition "D" logical drive and try it again
. same error. i then try fdisk and fdisk /dev/sda ( i have a scsi hd ) and it
says cannot open sda.  what am i doing wrong?

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