On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 21:27, Benjamin Fisher wrote: > Recently got a friend interested in Linux. I was helping him install RedHat 8.0. >It worked fine. But. > > 1.) The boot disk the installation made fails to work correctly.
Bad thing about those floppy things in linux is that it will fail without telling you if the floppy disk has any bad sectors. Before using any floppies in Linux, be sure to format it to be safe. You can use "fdformat" in Linux. > 2.)It locks up during system start-up when it gets to bringing up the loopback >interface. I spent 30 second to a minute waiting for it to do it before I decided it >wasn't gunna do it. > > Kronos I have a very similar laptop (PCG-FXA36), and I never had this particular problem. http://myplc.com/sony/ This site has tons of useful information for our Sony laptops, with an entire page dedicated to Linux and FreeBSD.
