Hi gang, My little 'ole linux box has been going thru come changes. As a result of an apparant hack to my eD2.4 I decided to reinstall, but alass my Caldera CD's were all at work. The only thing I had laying around here at home was RH7.0 so I gave it a whirl and it installed no problem. It is very similar to eD2.4 but different too in a number of ways, some I would call an improvement, some not. Recently, and partly because of this list, upon which I have been lurking for a while, I came across Linux System Labs website and saw that I could get numerous linux distros and other goodies for dirt cheap prices. Sooo I invested all of $32us including shipping and got 13 cds which I have been trying out on a 2.4 gig spare hd I had. I just pull the one with RH on it and reset the bios and plug in the test drive. My test system is an old p133 with 48megs, a scsi CD, a Sony CD-RW as the primary drive on the second ide cable, a lousy Mach 32 2 meg video card and my trusty old HP 855c printer. I tried Caldera W3.1 but it hangs real quick and tells me I shoulda had a pII. Redmond Linux Beta 3 does the same thing. I knew it was based on Caldera but I was hoping for better. I must say I was suprised to see the Caldera logo still on the lilo boot screen. I mean come on, if you're going to have your own distro at least you can do is to replace the logo of the company you stole... ahem, borrowed it from. The most successful installation so far goes to EasyLinux, another german product which has done a lot of good things with KDE but unfortunately I have been unable to get their eXs program to successfully create an X config file for my old video card. I had high hopes for Slackware 8.0 but I can't get past square one. The cd won't boot. Here's the uniquely linux error messages I get: isolinux 1.62 Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it.... isolinux: Found something at drive = 9F isolinux: Failed to access CD-ROM device; boot failed at this point it just hangs. I'm stumped. Is this a bad CD or what? I can read the cd when I've got the RH system going but I don't want to dump the RH until I'm sure I can replace it with something else that at least lets me get back on the web so I can get help. My system stops now. Like my slackware message, I try to wing it. TIA, Warren _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
