As Craig Harpel pointed out a few days ago, the Torisan DVD is not amenable
to installing RH 5.1. My experience bears him out on that (I tried no
fewer than 3 different releases on CD, none will install to completion from
the DVD). I copied the CD over to hard disk and booted of RH5.1 CD, chose
local HD installation, and I am now booting linux from LOADLIN.EXE which is
extremely surreal, because the Windows 95 blue-sky screen comes up and then
suddenly is replaced by Linux character-mode boot stream. (Thanks Marvin
Stodolsky for nudging me in that direction).
I'm building up my installation with current neomagic XFConfig (from the
vendor site http://precisioninsight.com , not Redhat) and the latest
PCMCIA drivers. Thank you Nigel for those pointers.
Anyway, thanks a bunch everyone. That was all great advice, and it really
blew away the impediments that were making me look like Win95 was my first
choice for everything.
At 04:02 PM 11/5/98 -0800, you 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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