-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Ah! The early days! I must have started a little later than you - either late 92 or early 93 - as my version was on 11 5 1/4 inch floppies. I had to boot on disk 11 and then install using the other 10 floppies. The install was awkward but what a sense of achievement when you got it working. My system was a 386SX16 with 1 MB RAM. I was so impressed with the speed of Linux I have used nothing else since. Heracles
On 05/04/13 21:46, Martin Visser wrote: > 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 > > [email protected] > > 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: <[email protected]> > From: [email protected](Martin Visser) > Date: 5 Apr 93 10:55:56 +1000 > Sender: [email protected](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. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJRX1Y/AAoJEJk11efqjIS4dDoIAM/KATeBiGfCv7/6JD2P43Db tmn279H/IV6wYGCdJsZyvP0B64kwZd/iJDiJ5def/lRTo9W7gaJA77ct31CTUpm3 Rrmipca7ID4b90GXhVOFm5aw1+6NFweh9CLv2Y2AkA4IQ5gCYsPrRtlMn8y/odaL /E5FrtBmYGIDCRjTzhdbsITxYlKHVZWiQcrGhofb3fjLMtYmo24AA6qZRz4K39U8 BFhmOsfBj2hylVmO3qnfIx7VdO94fFmoreQc4VscMSLzhzoM2V9IIIofUOqnDxuk gEY/xoZ2aEXKCHYnwlNYhvX5hQBHVTMFg8cG24F9Prqkj/TjXgaX/lVNoQVHh1w= =JcDY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
