1) Keep the CD in the CD-ROM
2) Go into your BIOS and temporarily change the boot device to your CD-ROM
3) Reboot your PC
4) The Linux installation should boot off your CD
5) After installation, you can change the boot device to the original
settings
HTH,
Matt
From: "vishal bansal" [EMAIL
This is happening because you used the "bootnet.img" to make a boot floppy
instead of the "boot.img". But the solution of booting directly from CD by
changing the BIOS settings is the best.
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did you type in "root" in the ID area then (your
password you set) in the password area?
- Original Message -
From:
Cheeqa
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 11:04
AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake
6.1
During the installati
Peter;
Have you tried logging in as root . And when prompted during the install did you
create a normal user ??
-Original Message-
From: Peter Norman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 9:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:[newbie] Linux
try root as login and the password you entered during installation
El mié, 08 dic 1999, escribiste:
Have just installed linux but at the login it won't accept any name entered. Any
ideas?
--
Guillermo Belli
Registered Linux User #131340
http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (under
On Wed, 08 Dec 1999, you wrote:
Just loaded up 6.1 on a smp system. Can anyone point
me in a direction to find the procedure to enable the
second chip. I would assume a kernel upgrade to smp
kernel. And the second question is: I have 96 megs of
ram, but it is only reconizing 64 megs of it.
John Aldrich wrote:
On Wed, 08 Dec 1999, you wrote:
I've had a system like that in the past, and had the same problem. I
tried various things and nothing worked. Finally I switched the two
DIMMs and it recognized the full memory. Don't know why, maybe a
motherboard qwirk. Hope it
During the installation, you've been asked a password. It is password for
user root.
Now, try to login as user root with the passsword
Peter Norman wrote:
Have just
installed linux but at the login it won't accept any name entered. Any
ideas?
