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Article #59578Re: Installing Linux .. plz help
From: Chris Saunderson
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 00:00
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Jason Allen (s9036208@cougar.vut.edu.au) wrote: : I just obatined the latest slackware release of Linux from ftp.cdrom.com : and am trying to install it into my system but cant even get past the : boot/install disk :-( Please help.... Okay! : I used 'bare' for the install disk and have a 486DX4/100 with 12Mb RAM : and 4 hard disks via a CMD EIDE card. (Drive config is 1.6GB, 270Mb, : 250Mb, and 240Mb). I reboot the PC with the 'bvare' boot disk and get the : boot: prompt to pass parameters to the kernel. Here I just press enter : and then get 'ramdisk..' and then an error message of 'error:0x10' and : the system then puts me back at the boot: prompt. I have tried giving : the ramdisk (cyl,head,sect) parameter to boot with the details for my : 1.6Gb drive but no go there ..... Any suggestions ?? All helpo appreciated! You've got a toasted root disk. Remake the thing. Things should work. Passing it parameters of the 1.6G drive won't help - there's nothing to see there. (Hint: Linux wants linux filesystems.) Cheers Chris -- Chris Saunderson saundo@byron.apana.org.au Librarian at large chris@calvin.apana.org.au Net geek at outside. :)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,e184f242f48d8745,start X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: saundo@byron.apana.org.au (Chris Saunderson) Subject: Re: Installing Linux .. plz help Date: 1996/01/15 Message-ID: <4dcj56$8g2@hack.byron.apana.org.au> X-Deja-AN: 136282961 references: <4dahim$6r5@cougar.vut.edu.au> organization: Byron Network Services newsgroups: aus.computers.linux