On Wed Jan 13 1999 at 09:47, "Marius Schamschula" wrote:
> 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.
Sounds like a bad (floppy) boot disk, and you might need to create
another one.
There are three ways to boot into the redhat installation program:
1. Create a boot floppy using the images\boot.img file. From dos or
wundoze this is done with the "dosutils\rawrite.exe" program.
2. From dos (or dos mode in wundoze), with a dos cdrom driver loaded:
d:
cd \dosutils
autboot.bat
which will load linux (via loadlin.exe) and then the installation
program.
3. Or if your BIOS can do it, boot directly from the RedHat CDROM
itself.
Cheers
Tony
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Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Science
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba Oueensland Australia
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They trust in 32 bit extensions for a 16 bit patch
to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microproccessor
written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition
