Del
01-16-1999, 05:15 AM
Well, the fun times have begun http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif
I finally got RedHat Linux 5.2 installed at home, so I can play *g* The 386 I had was giving me all sorts of headaches, so I finally gave up on it and went out and bought a 5 yr old 90MHz Pentium (16mb ram), plunked my cdrom into it (to replace the 12x that was in it that didn't seem to be recognized), tossed the 720MB HDD that was in it in favor of a new 6.4gb Western Digital unit (can send in the old one with my rebate ticket for an extra ten bucks tho).
After all that, the blippin thing still wouldn't work, kept getting a "Boot Failed" error when I'd fire it up with the boot floppy in the a drive (same problem that ticked me off with the 386 which caused me to buy the pentium box)... Suddenly I had a moment of clarity, and tried making my own boot disk, instead of using the one that came with the box set. Lo and behold, it happied right up. Seems RedHat shipped a defective boot disk or something. Anyway, the "Server Install" is now put into this here little box across the room. The box came with a couple cute little stickers that say "powered by red hat" along with the little shadow guy in the fedora, so I stuck one of them on the front.
Now I get to go track down a video card that is supported, so I can install xwindows (or whatever variant the box set shipped with)(so I can use it for 'real' things like running nutscape *g*). Also need to find a modem for it so nutscape will do me any good in the first place.
Thought I'd share
TTYL
Oh yeah. Does anyone know what kind of hoops I have to jump thru to put a Zip drive on the Linux box? Also, can I use my floppies on the Linux box and the Windows box (is the format readable by both, or will the crlf's really bungle the thing)? Thanks
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Del
www.downinit.com (http://www.downinit.com)
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[This message has been edited by Del (edited 01-16-99).]
I finally got RedHat Linux 5.2 installed at home, so I can play *g* The 386 I had was giving me all sorts of headaches, so I finally gave up on it and went out and bought a 5 yr old 90MHz Pentium (16mb ram), plunked my cdrom into it (to replace the 12x that was in it that didn't seem to be recognized), tossed the 720MB HDD that was in it in favor of a new 6.4gb Western Digital unit (can send in the old one with my rebate ticket for an extra ten bucks tho).
After all that, the blippin thing still wouldn't work, kept getting a "Boot Failed" error when I'd fire it up with the boot floppy in the a drive (same problem that ticked me off with the 386 which caused me to buy the pentium box)... Suddenly I had a moment of clarity, and tried making my own boot disk, instead of using the one that came with the box set. Lo and behold, it happied right up. Seems RedHat shipped a defective boot disk or something. Anyway, the "Server Install" is now put into this here little box across the room. The box came with a couple cute little stickers that say "powered by red hat" along with the little shadow guy in the fedora, so I stuck one of them on the front.
Now I get to go track down a video card that is supported, so I can install xwindows (or whatever variant the box set shipped with)(so I can use it for 'real' things like running nutscape *g*). Also need to find a modem for it so nutscape will do me any good in the first place.
Thought I'd share
TTYL
Oh yeah. Does anyone know what kind of hoops I have to jump thru to put a Zip drive on the Linux box? Also, can I use my floppies on the Linux box and the Windows box (is the format readable by both, or will the crlf's really bungle the thing)? Thanks
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Del
www.downinit.com (http://www.downinit.com)
da da da
[This message has been edited by Del (edited 01-16-99).]