Ed,
My Linux Debian 2 installation was painless on a 3200
>From your description of your failures with BOTH Redhat and Slackware,
one might guess that its a powersaver setting that is not perceiving
Linux actions and is putting the Laptop to sleep. Thus upon poweron:
1) Hit F2
2) Within Setup, disable all power saving options intially
3) Try the installation again.
On my company laptop, I have to keep Win95 "natural".
So I start Linux through the following Win95 config.sys
where vmlinuz is a copy of the kernel installed in the linux partition.
Whenever you install a new kernel remember to copy it to
C:\linux if you use LOADLIN, otherwise you will boot with the old
kernel.
LOADLIN will manage boot anywhere, multigig drive or even another
physical disk. This is an alternative to changing the master boot
record under LILO
MarvS
==============config.sys==============================
[menu]
menuitem=WIN95, Win95 on C: Drive
menuitem=BEST, Linux on /dev/hda6 (my root partition)
menuitem=DOS, DOS of Win95
menudefault=WIN95, 5
[WIN95]
[BEST]
; Start the LOADLIN process:
INSTALL C:\LINUX\LOADLIN.EXE C:\LINUX\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 ro vga=3
[DOS]
; CONFIG.SYS from Win95 Rescue disk
DOS=UMB
DOS=HIGH
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:ON
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\SETVER.EXE
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P /E:1024
; DEVICEHIGH=RAMDRIVE.SYS /E 5120
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ANSI.SYS
=================================================
>
> 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!
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Edward Bedinger
> Technical Communications
> Edword Co.
> 206.782-0378
>
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