It says it survived its previous visit, so why not? Picked up a couple of floppy cables and a spare used floppy and may even set up to double boot so I can use the hardware diagnostics of the other OS. Choppy At 09:37 AM 7/19/01 -0500, you wrote: <em>>On 19 Jul 2001 07:55:44 -0500, Chopin Cusachs wrote: <em>> <em>> <em>> > Thought maybe there could be bad blocks, so I repeated the GUI <em>> > install letting it do a bad blocks check, which took an hour or so. <em>> > Happened to be sitting in front of the screen when it died in formatting <em>> > the big /data partition, essentially what was left of the 30 GB drive <em>> > after defining /boot, /user, swap, and /. It is about 25GB. Wonder <em>> > if that is too big. Left the second drive, 14MB as a single /store <em>> > partition. All but swap I specified Linux native, and Disk Druid <em>> > seemed to know what to do with the swap partition. <em>> > <em>> <em>>You realize, of course, that you won't be able to live it down if you <em>>don't bring this machine to the next meeting, right? I'm starting to <em>>perceive this as a challenge to the sensibilities of RedHat. I've never <em>>seen or heard of this kind of trouble in installing a modern distro. We <em>>used to have stuff like that in Slackware 95 and stuff like that, but <em>>this is new and improved (with cleansing action!). <em>> <em>>Bring that thing to the meeting. I'm curious. <em>> <em>> <em>>Jerald <em>> <em>>================================================ <em>>BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>>Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>>Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>>your subscription information. <em>>================================================ <p>================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================ <!-- body="end" --> <hr noshade> <ul> <li><strong>Next message:</strong> Gary Thompson: "[brluglist] Connect/Authentication Question" <li><strong>Previous message:</strong> Jerald Sheets: "Re: [brluglist] Continuing Saga" <li><strong>In reply to:</strong> Jerald Sheets: "Re: [brluglist] Continuing Saga" <li><strong>Messages sorted by:</strong> [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ] </ul> <hr noshade>
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