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From: Indukumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, February 23, 2001 2:32 PM
Subject: [LIH] Problem in installing Red hat Linux 6.1
|Hi,
|
|Yesterday I tried installing Red hat Linux 6.1 (PC Quest distribution)
|
|My PC configuration is : PIII 800 MHz, 64MB RAM, 20 GB HDD as
| Primary Master, 52x CD drive as the
|Sec. Master
| 540 MB HDD as the secondary slave.
|
|Before starting the installation I disabled the Primary Master in the CMOS
|setup.
|(I didn't want to disturb the win98 on my new 20GB HDD !! I'm new to
|Linux:-(
|Selected the text installation option I chose English, PS/2 Mouse...
|
|I created the following partitions : (all on the "hdd" ie., secondary
|slave)
| /boot --> 16MB
| Linux swap --> 64MB
| / --> 200MB (with the option to grow)
|
|
|Then I chose to write the LILO on the hdd boot record( 540MB HDD). When the
|installation started to
Do not install lilo. Use loadlin to boot
loadlin <your_kernel_image> root=/dev/<your_hd_partition>
Make boot disk while installing so that you can boot in to linux and copy
kernel image to your window drive, How ?
After booting to linux
mkdir /mnt/dos
mount /dev/<your_window_partition> /mnt/dos -t msdos
Then copy vmlinuz (around 700kb) to dos partition.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Mukund Deshmukh
Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd.
Web Site - www.betacomp.com
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