On Tuesday 18 December 2001 15:33, you wrote:
Ok, I have received several replies and greatly appreciate the help and
suggestions. Now I don't know whether to feel silly or glad. While
re-doing all of the step that I have taken so that I could write down
the messages, I was able to start
On Monday 17 December 2001 16:18, you wrote:
[BIG SNIP OF IRRELEVANT TRIVIA(my own utterings)]
Yes, I am at the install stage. And no, it does not get to In second
stage Install.
Hurray!! Got that right! :)
[ANOTHER BIG SNIP OF IRRELEVANT TRIVIA(my own utterings)]
I think I did this
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:52:09 -0500
Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Previously, Anita Lewis chose to write:
that's the general idea. I just finished installing slackware on a
laptop
with 4Mb RAM and using floppies. First there was the boot floppy with
the
So there might be a use for
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From: Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: Win95 replacement
Um, ok so its gone on another computer, so its not the disk. However,
EXACTLY
how are you going about the install, not through
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From: Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: Win95 replacement
One point mate, is that it is imperative that you DO know the chipsets
on
board the MB and the video card so as you can tell
On Monday 17 December 2001 16:00, Derek Blazer enunciated:
It says IDE next to it during windows bootup, so I assume that it is not
a SCSI drive. I checked the devices tab on the system folder and didn't
see a SCSI controller listed.
What windows says and what it know are two differing
On Monday 17 December 2001 05:46, you wrote:
I have tried to boot from the cdrom, but the system ignores it even
after adjusting the bios. So I have to reboot into dos and use the
autoboot.bat file from the /dosutils folder on the cdrom. Caldera
allows installation from within windows,
Derek Blazer wrote:
Thanks for the replies. I have tried to provide additional
info below:
Anita Lewis wrote:
You might try running the cdrom as a rescue disk to see what is
happening.
I know you can do that with the RH disk. Boot it and then do 'linux
rescue'
That will start
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From: Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: Win95 replacement
snip
I have been 'sort of' watching this thread, and the above statement
puzzl;es
me, because one has to partition the drive
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From: Declan Moriarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: Win95 replacement
snip
The following is a guess. To help you we need more precise
information.
So you're at the install stage, am I right? You know
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 02:18, Derek Blazer enunciated:
I could always stand to do some more reading on linux, but I have
successfully installed linux before using these disks. Before posing my
problem to the list, I did do a brief search in the Caldera users list
archive and the step
this has been done, up to 2 gig will be
available for normal use.
I don't think you can install Linux on a hard drive on which the utility is
still in place.
FWIW
Regards,
Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux User # 135678 - since 1994
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Subject: Re: Win95
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 21:46:42 -0800, Derek Blazer wrote:
Thanks for the replies. I have tried to provide additional info below:
- Original Message -
From: Anita Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You might try running the cdrom as a rescue disk to see what is
happening.
I know you can do
Previously, Anita Lewis chose to write:
that's the general idea. I just finished installing slackware on a laptop
with 4Mb RAM and using floppies. First there was the boot floppy with the
So there might be a use for my old 486SX-33 Gateway laptop with 8MB RAM?
Hmmm. Maybe I could turn it
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:52:09 -0500
Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Previously, Anita Lewis chose to write:
that's the general idea. I just finished installing slackware on a
laptop with 4Mb RAM and using floppies. First there was the boot
floppy with the
So there might be a use
Hello all,
I recently acquired an older computer from a co-worker and I wish to get rid
of windows95 and replace it with linux so that I may play. I have tried
loading Redhat 6.1, Mandrake 7.0, and Caldera 2.3. All three have given me
the same error: Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs
Derek
Download Workstation 3.1 iso from calera. I just put
it on an okser machine than yours. Works great.
www.caldera.comgo to products / or support and get the image
and burn a cd rom. All that you mentioned are okder Linuxs.
cheers
--
Rick Sivernell
Dallas, Texas 75287
972
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 15:52:05 -0800, Derek Blazer wrote:
Hello all,
I recently acquired an older computer from a co-worker and I wish to get rid
of windows95 and replace it with linux so that I may play. I have tried
loading Redhat 6.1, Mandrake 7.0, and Caldera 2.3. All three have given
On Sunday 16 Dec 2001 23:52, Derek Blazer wrote:
Hello all,
I recently acquired an older computer from a co-worker and I wish to
get rid of windows95 and replace it with linux so that I may play. I
have tried loading Redhat 6.1, Mandrake 7.0, and Caldera 2.3. All
three have given me the
Thanks for the replies. I have tried to provide additional info below:
- Original Message -
From: Anita Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: sxs.lists.linux-users
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: Win95 replacement
You might try running
- Original Message -
From: Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: Win95 replacement
This is telling you that it can't mount the root filesystem on device
major 8 minor 4, which, according to
/usr/src/linux
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