Well today pretty much marks 20 years since I've used Linux at home. I'd been using Linux at since late '92, mainly as a way to cheaply repurpose some older PCs into X-Windows terminals for use in our UNIX development environment. I'd sold a bunch of shares from my employer, and decided to reward myself with a shiny 33MHz '486 powered PC. From memory the system cost me $3150. At the same time I bought my wife a nice upright Yamaha U3 piano (about 25 years old at the time). You can guess which one we still have, and which is well and truly buried underground. ;-)
I specifically bought the PC with the intent on dual-booting Windows 3.1 and Linux. I did buy Borland C++ for the PC, but I really was more interested in playing around in Linux. Anyway here is the post to USEnet I made 20 years ago today. Regards, Martin martinvisse...@gmail.com https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.linux/diR_GdOPV5Y/ejo0whA3PcoJ Path:gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!nigel.msen.com!sdd.hp.com! elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu !wupost!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!merlin! iwsd01.itwol.bhp.com.au!eedwsa.itwol.bhp.com.au!visser Newsgroups: comp.os.linux Subject: Help installing Linux.(doinstall fails) Message-ID: <1993apr5.105557....@iwsd01.itwol.bhp.com.au> From: vis...@eedwsa.itwol.bhp.com.au(Martin Visser) Date: 5 Apr 93 10:55:56 +1000 Sender: vis...@eedwsa.itwol.bhp.com.au(Martin Vesa (32-bit)) Distribution: world Nntp-Posting-Host: eedwsa.itwol.bhp.com.au Lines: 37 Hi, I,ve tried to install the SLS base system 99p6. I partitioned my 210 Maxtor drive to half DOS and then added a 15M /dev/hda2 (type 81 Linux,Minix) and 10M /dev/hda3 (type 83 Linux swap). After writing to the partition table and rebooting, I did a mkfs /dev/hda2 15504; mkswap /dev/hda3 4096; swapon /dev/hda3. After then running doinstall things seemed OK until it tried to start installing a2,a3 and a4. The system only looked at the disks for about a millisecond and then prompted me to insert the next one ( I was thinking , Boy! this installation is quick). Finally I got the prompt for formatted disk to make a boot disk. Thinking, I ahd finished, I attempted to boot this disk to no avail. Of course during doinstall I got messages such as "mv: command not found", "rm: command not found" and so forth. I am guessing that my /dev/hada2 is not mounting and hence the file system is not being transferred. I have been trying to dissassemble "doinstall" as most erros seem to be redirected to /dev/null. One "error" I noted on booting is "WD8013 not found at 280 ". Can't the driver find my disk controller? I have a TMC 486/33 motherboard with a VESA IDE controller. Linux seems to be able access the disk because the partioning worked and mkfs -c works the disk out. Please help me out , I would love to get Linux up and running. -- Regards, Martin /\/\ : Martin Visser - Electrical / Software Engineer / / /\ : Engineering Technology Department / / / \ : BHP Steel - Slab and Plate Products Division / / / /\ \ : P.O. Box 1854 Wollongong NSW 2500 AUSTRALIA \ \/ / / / : Phone +61-42-75-7522 ext. 6207 \ / / / : Fax +61-42-75-7038 \/\/\/ : E-mail vis...@itwol.bhp.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
