Hello, FYI - I remember seeing some posts that indicated that the CD that was shipped with this book has problems. I do not know what the "grub>" prompt is all about though. Debian 2.1 is what I run on my Thinkpad 560, but a friend copied the CDs for me, from the "official" ones. John >From: Markus Hareide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: grub? >Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 14:17:16 +0200 > >I'm an old Mac user trying to learn to use Linux. At first Iwas using >Mandrake 7.1, but I decided to switch to Debian because of the >philosophy behind it. >I bought the O'Reilly book "Learning Debian GNU/Linux written by Bill >McCarty. This book contained an CD with Debian 2.1. >The book explain how to install the system. But after I'm done and >restart the laptop (IBM ThinkPad) it stops at a command saying GRUB> and >nothig happends!!?? What shal I do? > >gamenius > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
