Shannon-
I remembered seeing this once before, but that was a problem with a SCSI
adapter?. In any case, your root filesystem here isn't on your hard drive
anyway, it's on the floppy you're booting from. Chances are then the
problem is with the floppy (I've already found 3 bad floppies out of a
I've got my laptop set to dual boot RedHat & Win98, with linux as the
default. My boyfriend uses the computer to play windows-specific games,
and very frequently he isn't paying attention to the computer when it
boots, so it goes into linux. This is a real pain for him, and a few times
he's turned
Did you rerun lilo to implement the changes before rebooting?
Jason
-Original Message-
From: A Kozic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 11:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [techtalk] LILO problems
I've got my laptop set to dual boot RedHat & Win98, with linu
Heya --
> I have tried editing the lilo.conf file, but it doesn't seem to be
> acknowledging my changes.
This is exactly your problem. After editing the lilo.conf, you
have to run /sbin/lilo to copy your changes into the master boot
record. (The MBR itself is what gets read at boot. So if
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:30:41AM -0500, A Kozic wrote:
> I've got my laptop set to dual boot RedHat & Win98, with linux as the
> default. My boyfriend uses the computer to play windows-specific games,
> and very frequently he isn't paying attention to the computer when it
> boots, so it goes int
After making your changes to the conf file, run the command lilo and
then make sure it doesn't report any errors.
Your changes should now be live.
-elainerd
A Kozic wrote:
>
> I've got my laptop set to dual boot RedHat & Win98, with linux as the
> default. My boyfriend uses the computer to play
I have a rather stupid problem. Exceedingly stupid considering that I
now work for SuSE...
but to get to the point.
I need to replace the red hat 6.2 on my box with suse 7.1 pro for work
reasons (otherwise id just upgrade to RH7). The problem is that I don't
have a CD-ROM drive on my computer
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Raven, popcorn ninja wrote:
> This is exactly your problem. After editing the lilo.conf, you
> have to run /sbin/lilo to copy your changes into the master boot
> record. (The MBR itself is what gets read at boot. So if you don't do
hey.. now that IU'm actually thinking
Put the CD in the server and share it out with either FTP, HTTP, or NFS.
Then just do a remote install using the SuSE boot disks.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Rebecca J. Walter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 12:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [techtalk]
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:08:42PM +1100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] thought:
> Shannon Botz wrote:
>
> > I am having problems installing Red Hat Linux on a computer. I am using a
> > P3 550mhz with 64meg of RAM. After booting with the floppy and entering any
> > install
I've been trying to get extra font packages to work with X4 particularly
the freefont and sharefont packages. I've read documentation, but so
far I haven't found anything that will help. I have added their font
path to my xconfig file and still nothing. Is there anyone out there
who's been able
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