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Linux install difficulty.....
OK, I raise my hands and lower my head in shame!!!
....forgive me oh guru for I have sinned...I have
been unsuccessful at an operation as basic as Linux
install.
I have a basic AT PC (Pentium 166), IDE hard disks plus CD ROM all pretty standard stuff. I have attempted to
boot Linux (Slackware 3.4/3.5) from floppy - boot works fine however on
reaching the message:
VFS: Insert Linux root disk and press Enter
......this I do and then nothing. The drive light
remains permantly lit and thats it. This happens
every time. I am using boot = bare.i and root = color.gz
I have tried both different disks and different install
files but nothing, I never get beyond the VFS: message
I must confess I have managed to install Linux in the past using an early release.
Can anyone help
....forgive me oh guru for I have sinned...I have
been unsuccessful at an operation as basic as Linux
install.
I have a basic AT PC (Pentium 166), IDE hard disks plus CD ROM all pretty standard stuff. I have attempted to
boot Linux (Slackware 3.4/3.5) from floppy - boot works fine however on
reaching the message:
VFS: Insert Linux root disk and press Enter
......this I do and then nothing. The drive light
remains permantly lit and thats it. This happens
every time. I am using boot = bare.i and root = color.gz
I have tried both different disks and different install
files but nothing, I never get beyond the VFS: message
I must confess I have managed to install Linux in the past using an early release.
Can anyone help
I agree with gunny about recreating the disk but are you creating the disks with the batch files (had problem with batch files & slackware 3.5) or are you manually creating them? My advise would be to manually create them and make sure your in dos only (windows does some funny stuff with rawrite.exe). Go to the directory where the images are and take note of the directory. Go to the directory where rawrite.exe is and type "rawrite". It will ask you where the file is, then which drive to write it to.
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Thank you Kman0218, am grateful for your response!!
I prepare the disk images manually with Rawrite together with the image name.
This I've been doing about 90% of the time but I have also used the batch files
out of deparation but they only automate the manual ptocess.
I run Windows NT so therefore am unable to perform the Rawrite operation and
therefore have to go to DOS mode.
I prepare the disk images manually with Rawrite together with the image name.
This I've been doing about 90% of the time but I have also used the batch files
out of deparation but they only automate the manual ptocess.
I run Windows NT so therefore am unable to perform the Rawrite operation and
therefore have to go to DOS mode.
wouldn't you have a dos-boot disk somewhere?
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Yes, that's what I use to enter DOS mode.
No matter (it seems) what disk or what image I use, installation stops at the VFS: insert root disk and press ENTER message.
No matter (it seems) what disk or what image I use, installation stops at the VFS: insert root disk and press ENTER message.
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