Hi all,
I've been using various flavors (Debian on x86 and mk on PPC) for the last
four years. The hard drive my gateway P5 machine (a 3GB Western Digital) has
started dropping inodes on a regular basis. I got tired of running fsck
every time I boot, so I got a new 6.4GB drive. I took that occasion to go to
upgrade to RedHat 5.2. Now I can't even get to the point of partitioning the
drive for Linux. I'm currently stuck in M$-DOS. The setup floppy disk starts
loading the kernal, but gets about a third of the way through (judging the
the dots), and the exits with the error: kernal load failed. I have had the
same problem with a gateway PII-300 with a 8.4GB drive at work.
Being used to Mac hardware, I have to admit that I'm a little unfamiliar
with the details of the Intel BIOSes. I had no problem getting both mklinux
and LinuxPPC on a 4.5GB drive for my G3 at home...
What am I missing? Any hints?
TIA
Marius
Marius Schamschula, optical physicist, mac, and network coordinator
The Center for Applied Optical Sciences: http://www.caos.aamu.edu/
Department of Physics, Alabama A & M University
