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Please help this ugly newbie.

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From: itsmewhoelse
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 04:32
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I am so d#*m frustrated right now I could a 10 pack of CD's.

First I d/l the iso and burned it, made a boot floppy and installed to the
same drive as windo$e, but diff part. Install appeared to go good. At
reboot, nothing but windoze. I tried to use the floppy the install directed
me to make, but no-o-o, it just gave me a red box that said "LILO Boot Menu"
and a "boot" prompt under that. I entered linux and it said loading, but
came up with an error ( 0x10 ).
So I thought I did something wrong on the install, and did it again, this
time reading everything on the screen. Still the same error. So I thought I
did bad on the d/l 'cause I only d/l the inst not the ext, so I went out and
bought the damn  power pack. Did the install again, same o same o. So I
chunked in a new hard drive ( D on winblows ) and installed it to that. I
get the same crazy error msg. What? What? Am I so damned brainwashed by
microsissy that I can't even see the nose on my face? Oh, Lord, please don't
let the microencephalitic goblins eat my brain anymore! I promise I won't
buy anymore of their stuff ( for my use ) if only you help me with this. I
promise.

BTW, the "manual" leaves a whole lot to be desired. The troubleshooting
section starts out assuming you have a good install. Hah!

Any one feel my pain?

Wesley
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