With slackware, when you say the installation would begin, what
do you mean several megs into the process. At what point? Have you setup
partitions and swap space? Source and target install points?
My install went without any problems. I didn't install from CD, but from
the dos partition.
My 3200 with linux is very reliable with 3Com575BT,3Com 56K modem
I'm using the 2.0.35 kernel and OSS for sound and the
pcmcia-3.0.6-Oct20-snapshot.
Congrats go to all the linux developers out there.
Ned Bedinger wrote:
> When I bought my 3200 several months ago I immediately wiped it clean and
> tried to install Red Hat 5.0. The install failed, so I bought an
> InfoMagic CD and tried Slackware, and it also failed. Recently I took a
> shot at installing Red Hat 5.1, again to no avail.
>
> In each case thre problem was this: installation would begin normally, but
> several megs into the process it would pause and eventually just die. I
> think this is the only symptom of the failure.
>
> I had these results when I wiped the 6 gig hard drive and then created
> parttions. There should have been no problem with space, I don't think.
> Can anyone speculate on why it dies like that?
>
> The first two gigs of the hard disk are now occupied by Win '95 stuff. I'd
> like to preserve it for a while if possible, is it conceivable that Linux
> can boot from a partition beyond the first two gigs? I tried it last week,
> and the installation died (again) so I don't knoiw fer sure if the bios
> will or will not allow booting that far into the drive.
>
> Thanks in advance!
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