On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:47:14AM +, Stephen Cradock wrote:
> Well, it's a long story!!!
>
> I started trying to install Woody (see "Starting up.." thread a couple of
> weeks ago) - found Woody wouldn't recognize my Intel 845 video chipset.
> Switched to "vesa" but that would only give me 6
On Thu 22 July 2004 10:20, Stephen Cradock wrote:
> OK, so it's a Windows question, not a Linux one...
>
> BUT in case anyone else here ever has the same problem, here's the
> fix:
>
> Recap - I allowed Grub to install itself in my MBR while trying to
> install sarge, and then found I couldn't wipe
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Robert William Hutton wrote:
> I'd recommend that you install LILO using the first woody CD. LILO, unlike
> GRUB, installs itself exclusively in the MBR, so you don't need some other
> partition for the stage 2 loader which GRUB requires.
That's not correct, although it's
OK, so it's a Windows question, not a Linux one...
BUT in case anyone else here ever has the same problem, here's the fix:
Recap - I allowed Grub to install itself in my MBR while trying to install
sarge, and then found I couldn't wipe out the sarge installation because
that left Grub without its
Simon Kitching wrote:
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 13:35, Robert William Hutton wrote:
Stephen Cradock wrote:
I'd recommend that you install LILO using the first woody CD. LILO, unlike
GRUB, installs itself exclusively in the MBR, so you don't need some other
partition for the stage 2 loader which GRUB
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 13:35, Robert William Hutton wrote:
> Stephen Cradock wrote:
> >
> I'd recommend that you install LILO using the first woody CD. LILO, unlike
> GRUB, installs itself exclusively in the MBR, so you don't need some other
> partition for the stage 2 loader which GRUB requires.
Stephen Cradock wrote:
Then, as one does when playing with Linux, I went stark staring bonkers,
and decide to try Gentoo - a friend told me it was much easier to
install. Rather than make yet another partition, I wiped the Sarge
partition and installed Gentoo there, from a CD. That went OK, but
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 12:47, Stephen Cradock wrote:
> Then, as one does when playing with Linux, I went stark staring bonkers, and
> decide to try Gentoo - a friend told me it was much easier to install.
> Rather than make yet another partition, I wiped the Sarge partition and
> installed Gentoo
Well, it's a long story!!!
I started trying to install Woody (see "Starting up.." thread a couple of
weeks ago) - found Woody wouldn't recognize my Intel 845 video chipset.
Switched to "vesa" but that would only give me 640x480 display.
So I decided to upgrade to Sarge - set up another Linux par
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