Hey all, A few issues with Corel Linux which I'm installing Corel Linux onto an IBM ThinkPad 385XD: 1. When I pop the CD into the drive and boot up, I get an 'L', followed by '80' printed repeatedly, filling each line on the screen. Booting from the floppy however, works. I can read the CD under Windows 98 and RedHat6.1, both of which are installed on the laptop. No errors were encountered during the download or burn (I burned at 4x). RedHat 5.x and 6.x boots and installs fine off the CD. 2. Partitioning tool during install. I can't tell it to reuse my existing partition scheme. I have to delete old Linux partitions and recreate them. When I do this, I cannot create the same partition scheme as I previously had - the boundaries will not match the previous definitions, and I lose about 3% of the available disk space. The partitioning tool doesn't seem to calculate the numbers as I'd expect - I had to create a 2008MB partition in order to occupy 1976MB of disk space. Further, it would be nice if one could specify the cylinders to occupy as well as/instead of specifying the partition size. 3. PCMCIA Support was not present. I'll have to add that in manually, which is not a big deal for me. 4. I understood that CL was supposed to detect available hardware, build a kernel and take all the details away from the user. I booted up in expert mode and watched the scsi drivers, raid drivers, etc etc attempting to load. I know how to build a kernel (that's what is happening right now in fact) so again this is no biggie for me, but for others... Cheers! Jon ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Earle (613) 751-4948 (Pager) HUB Computer Consulting Inc. (613) 830-1499 (Office) http://www.hubcc.ca 1-888-353-7272 (Within Canada/US) "God does not subtract from one's alloted time on Earth, those hours spent flying." --Unknown
