Re: Etch won't load after eight attempts

2008-06-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/03/2008 06:47 PM, Ken Heard wrote: On 26 March 2008 I purchased a computer with an Intel dual core CPU and a SATA hard drive. Since then I have off and on spent in the aggregate 77.94 hours trying to install and configure Etch on it using the third revision of net-install disk.

Re: Etch won't load after eight attempts

2008-06-04 Thread Christopher Judd
On Wednesday 04 June 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:11:33AM -0400, David Clymer [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 21:12 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I don't know what the problem is since I haven't used LILO since, I think, Potato (IOW, I

Etch won't load after eight attempts

2008-06-03 Thread Ken Heard
On 26 March 2008 I purchased a computer with an Intel dual core CPU and a SATA hard drive. Since then I have off and on spent in the aggregate 77.94 hours trying to install and configure Etch on it using the third revision of net-install disk. I have so far made eight attempts

Re: Etch won't load after eight attempts

2008-06-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:47:01PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: What happened earlier today is more or less typical of the what I have been up against. I was able to complete the eighth installation with the xfs file system and KDE. On the recommendation of the installer I used the LILO

Re: Etch won't load after eight attempts

2008-06-03 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 21:12 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:47:01PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: What happened earlier today is more or less typical of the what I have been up against. I was able to complete the eighth installation with the xfs file system and

Re: Etch won't load after eight attempts

2008-06-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:11:33AM -0400, David Clymer [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 21:12 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I don't know what the problem is since I haven't used LILO since, I think, Potato (IOW, I think I was using Grub on Sarge). You could go