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3 total messages Started by JiunWoei Tseng Sat, 26 Aug 1995 00:00

#530

Author: JiunWoei Tseng
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 00:00

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I got a copy of Linux recently (actually two because two people responded to
my post and now I've got it on CD and floppy).  Now I downloaded a bootdisk
image and was able to use RAWRITE and boot up LILO and blah blah blah.  I run
setup (only after I got Linux fdisk running) and I can't get the setup utility
to do anything for me.  If it hit install or installation media or any of the
other options, nothing happens.  What happened?  I'm stuck!  *argh*

						A Depressed Conehead

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Re: Installing Linux...

#531

Author: klaatu
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 00:00

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JiunWoei Tseng (jryan@glue.umd.edu) wrote:
: I got a copy of Linux recently (actually two because two people responded to
: my post and now I've got it on CD and floppy).  Now I downloaded a bootdisk
: image and was able to use RAWRITE and boot up LILO and blah blah blah.  I run
: setup (only after I got Linux fdisk running) and I can't get the setup utility
: to do anything for me.  If it hit install or installation media or any of the
: other options, nothing happens.  What happened?  I'm stuck!  *argh*
: 
: 						A Depressed Conehead

Hmnmm, which Linux are you using? (I use slackware, myself).

First, have you activated your swap space? did you even partition your 
harddrive to allow swap space? Having partitioned your harddrive to allow 
swap space, did you mount a secondary partition for your data/wares space?

Tell us exactly what you did, please, at least the four or five steps 
right before you started going nowhere...

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Re: Installing Linux...

#532

Author: Urban Borstnik
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 00:00

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JiunWoei Tseng (jryan@glue.umd.edu) wrote:
> image and was able to use RAWRITE and boot up LILO and blah blah blah.  I run
> setup (only after I got Linux fdisk running) and I can't get the setup utility
> to do anything for me.  If it hit install or installation media or any of the
> other options, nothing happens.  What happened?  I'm stuck!  *argh*

  If you have 4 Megs of RAM, make sure you set up a swap partition...I had the
same problem.  Instructions are in the setup howto.


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