This is an answer to Jason Hirsch, who kindly tried to help me with
a install problem with my old 486. I'm posting it to the RH-list
as well as to Jason because it contains pertinent information that Jason
requested....
Hi Jason -- thanks for responding --
Here are the answers to your questions:
The boot.img floppy comes up with a menu. I can get help by hitting
the F1, F2, ... keys. Then when I hit RETURN (which means I want to
install from the CD) it writes "Loading initrd.img ..." to the screen,
and shortly thereafter it just stops doing anything. No HD activity,
no floppy activity, no CDROM activity.
When I do this with a RHL4.2 boot.img, it gives me the menu, writes
"Loading initrd.img .....", then
"Loading vmlinuz ...."
and then comes up with a screen that wants information about the
monitor. The install proceeds from there ...
The boot.img floppies later than 4.2 work fine on my other system,
which is a Pentium II. So I am sure that the floppies are ok.
I could wipe the Linux part of the system clean. I'm guessing that
you mean formating the Linux partitions. The /etc, /var, /home,
and /usr/local directories are all on tape and can be restored.
RHL 4.2 has been successfully installed twice. The first install was
corrupted some time ago, probably by a power failure, and I reinstalled
from the floppies and the RHL4.2 CD without problems. No hardware
changes have been made since that re-install.
There are two drives. The older one has ATT UNIX on it and MSW3.1.
The Linux drive is 1GB.
The RAM is 16MB.
Thanks again,
bob jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Jason Hirsch wrote:
>
> Not sure here... so i'm gonna ask some stupid questions...
>
> (i have a 486dx2 66 with 24 meg ram, 540hD that i got for 47$ (63$ with 2
> NICS).... so thats my experience on that.
>
> Do the floppies load a all? Does it just sit there and claim nothing is
> happening?
>
> have you tried the floppy in another machine? ie, is ita good floppy (i
> HATE floppy disks... sigh)
>
> it's not some funky board or anything, is it? Newer bios?
>
> Do you need to preserve the data, or can you wipe the system clean?
>
> How big is the drive? Larger than the old bios 1.8 gig limitation?
>
> Jason
>
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