Hi all This is an update.Debian is now installed and working on Jills Athlon but there were quite a few problems. The average mum/dad/Windows user would not have been able to install Linux on that machine due to a number of things - not really Linux at fault though.
Machine : Athlon with a 9G disk as /dev/sda and a new 72G disk as /dev/sdb 1. The machine could boot off the Official Debian DVD for getting the files off it for the base install and failed with "Couldnt download ibstdc++2.10-glibc2.2". but . We will see later if it can apt-get off it now its installed. 2. We later got an ISO image of CD1 I burnt and booted that. But that install failed too. It got past the base installation but the system would not boot. Hung at initrd. Suspect the BIOS cant boot a sdb drive and maybe an old 1023 cyliner limitation problem. 3. We removed the old drive and made the new one /dev/sda. We also made a /boot partition. The first time this didnt work. We tried to make the partition /boot as small as possible - 1 cylinder is about 8GBytes so thats the smallest we were able to make it. 4. Changed boot partition from ext3 to ext2 ! Now the system can boot further. But the drive was ro. Probably as there were references in lilo.conf to the older /dev/sdb layout. Re-Mounted it as writable and edited out older/previous lilo.conf stuff. 5. We still had to reinitialise the partitions again as there was some information still stored somewhere then it booted fine. So X is now configured, enlightenment is runnning and we will re-install the old drive as sdb this weekend. The Athlon is only about 3 or so years old but it does have a very limited bios. I was surprised that we couldnt boot from a drive at sdb . Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER ======================================================================== This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. ======================================================================== -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
