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Article #59036Re: Assistance required for Linux Newbie
From: Craig Irvine
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <4kdup4$ofd@news.mel.aone.net.au>, peter.aikins@acslink.aone.net.au says... > >In article <4kcip6$47a@altus.speednet.com.au>, deezee@speednet.com.au says... >> <snip> > >>2) I've installed LILO and everythings seems to be going fairly well. >>On boot up I get an option (after pressing CTRL or ALT) which asks me >>what OS I want to use - DOS or LINUX. Whilst it is booting there are >>several lines of info that come up prior to arriving at the prompt. I >>have noted these few lines thinking that there may be problems with >>initial set up. Could someone please explain what they mean and if I >>must change certain parameters ? >> >>CHECKING 386/387 COUPLING....OK, FPU USING EXCEPTION 16 ERROR >>REPORTING >> >>PARTITION CHECK HDA: MULTIPLE MODE TURNED OFF >> HDA: HDA1, HDA2, HDA3 >> >>CHECKING FOR CD....UNABLE TO IDENTIFY CDROM FORMAT >>END_REQUEST: I/O ERROR, DEV 2100, SECTOR 64 >>ISOFS_READ_SUPER:BREAD FAILED, DEV 0x2100 >>UNABLE TO IDENTIFY CDROM FORMAT >> >>STARTING PCMCIA SERVICES: INITIALISATION OF i82365 FAILED CARDMGR >> > >This looks a bit fishy. Unfortunately I can't help you here. I think there's a PCMCIA HOWTO, but do you need one of these? > There appears to be two problems here. The first is that the CDROM isn't being recognised. The second is the kernel you have installed is looking for a PCMCIA adaptor. These can be fixed by reconfiguring the kernel for your machine and then recompiling (check the kernel how-to). >>Lastly could someone be kind enough as to answer a silly question like >>what is the command under LINUX which acts as TREE for MSDOS ? >> Not being a unix guru I would use the command du. This gives a listing of each directory under the current one with it's size (in blocks I think). Anyone got any better ideas??? Craig
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,ab52fa2fab23723f X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: cirvine@powerup.com.au (Craig Irvine) Subject: Re: Assistance required for Linux Newbie Date: 1996/04/10 Message-ID: <4kg68t$g0n@grissom.powerup.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 147673405 references: <4kcip6$47a@altus.speednet.com.au> <4kdup4$ofd@news.mel.aone.net.au> organization: PowerUp mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: aus.computers.linux