If you want help with the LILO problem, you will really have to be a bit
more specific than saying that it reported "some error". I doubt we can give
you better *general* instructions for how to use LILO than the ones in the
man page and HowTo, which I assume you've already read and tried to follow.
As to the slowness running Netscape, I too would guess memory limitations.
To see for sure, open an xterm window and run "top". See what it shows about
how much memory Netscape is using when it runs and whether the system is
using any swap space (swap space is an area of the disk that gets used as
though it were RAM, and since disk access is MUCH slower than real RAM
access, it slows things down a lot).
If you're using swap regularly, you'll probably need to add memory to
overcome the slowness (or get used to the slowness). It's possible that
you're running some unneeded daemons that can be killed to free up memory,
but that's hard to diagnose remotely ... perhaps your friend can take a look
at the process list and spot unneeded ones.
Not sure what your friend means by "the kernel should be reconfigured
(hacked)". If you compile a kernel customized for your system, it can be a
lot smaller than a stock kernel. But that's a lot of work to put in just to
avoid spending a few bucks on some added memory ... not my call, though.
At 06:13 AM 5/23/99 +0700, Aditya Hermawan wrote:
>I have three main partitions on my HD. hda1 for Linux (hda5=root;
>hda6=swap), hda2 for /usr, and hda3 for Windoze98.
>
>When I installed RedHat 5.2, the installation process ran fine, but when
>it came to the (LILO) booter installation, the screen told me that there
>is some error when trying to install the booter on MBR. I did it again
>several times and it still won't work. So I have to skip the booter
>installation and use a bootdisk to boot Linux.
>One of my friends told me to configure the lilo.conf file. I read the
>documentations on the PC and also on books and on the net and I follow
>them. But it still won't work. So anybody can tell me exactly how to
>make it works?
>
>I am really a newbie on Linux so I ask my friend to help me to configure
>the internet connection. Then there was the first time I am on the net
>with Linux, but it's reallyyy slooowww. The pages seen with Netscape
>won't show up after I waited for minutes. So I have to use Lynx. My
>friend told me that my PC lacked of memory (only 16MB) and the kernel
>should be reconfigured (hacked). I still don't know how to hack the
>kernel, so is there any other easier way?
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