Or Botton wrote:
>
> I need to somehow make that 486 run on Linux, while all the 486 got is
> a 4G drive (which leaves 2G for Linux if I terminate drive D:), and
> 4MB of RAM. All I got is Mandrake 6.x and Red Hat 5, 6.2, and SuSE 6.1.
> All of them are on CDs, all of them are "hard disk hogs" unless you know
> enough on how to install it efficently. And guess what? I dont. :)
>
> So far I concider myself lucky because I managed to learn how to browse
> the directories and execute programs in the consule. Unfortunatly,
> thats about sums up all my knowledge in Linux.
Hi Or;
I hope that is NOT the sum of your Linux knowledge cuz I'm looking for a
little help. <G>
First, your payment:
I finally successfully downloaded and installed Dragonlinux 0.76.
The rumours of a corrupted RAR are false.
Those reporting errors were probably having the same sort of problems with RAR
that I had for several days.
The good news is that the download is 6 x 1.44Mb files that expand into only
21.843,313Mb. Because that's 3123 files - mostly trivial little things, the
real usage on my disk (FAT16 - 4k sectors) is 25.608,192Mb - still not bad.
Dragonlinux uses a UMSDOS file system so it can co-exist comfortably with
your existing files. It's apparantly based on slackware.
I have now pretty much demonstrated the extent of MY knowledge of Linux. <G>
My problem is that I installed it (easily) on drive D:
It is default setup to run on drive C: (my C: is much smaller than D:) but
instructions indicate it will run anywhere as long as you change two files
to inform Linux where it is.
The files are easy to find and change.
The problem is I must tell it the LINUX name of drive D: and can't get any
help or manuals until it boots. :((
The name found for drive C: in these files is hda1.
I tried telling it that it was on hda2 and hdb1 and in both cases, after it
looked like it was working, it quit with a kernel panic, apparantly not able
to find itself.
Any suggestions ? (besides b****r off ?)
- Clarence Verge
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