On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Mickelberry, Travis L wrote: > WHEN I TRY TO INSTALL LINUX EVERYTHING GOES FINE UNTIL I HAVE TO REBOOT > THE MACHINE...I MADE A BOOT FLOPPY AND IT TELLS ME TO LEAVE IT IN...SO > THEN I REBOOT AND IT SAYS LOADING LINUX...THEN IT SAY UNCOMPESSING LINUX > AND IT GET STUCK AND JUST SITS THERE WITH TO FLOPPY DISK ACTIVITY...I > HAVE TRIED 4 DIFFERENT FLOPPY'S ALL WITH THE SAME RESULTS...I HAVE A 1 > GB MAXTOR HARDDRIVE AND THERE IS NOTHING ELSE ON IT...I HAVE A SEPARATE > HARD DRIVE FOR WINDOW'S... > HERE IS A LIST OF MY HARDWARE.
<polite note>Pls don't post all in caps - it looks really ugly and annoys people</> Did you try making linux bootable from the hard disk? > > INTEL P-2 266 OVERCLOCKED TO 300MHZ AT 100MHZ FRONT SYSTEM BUS It could well be that your CPU is unhappy - the bootup works it reasonably hard, and P2s really aren't meant to be overclocked. I would recommend clocking it back down again. > WHEN I INSTALLED LINUX I LEFT ALL THE SETTINGS ALONE AND DID NOT > CUSTIMIZE ANY OF MY HARDWARE SETTINGS...DO I NEED TO MANUALLY CONFIGURE > MY FLOPPY DRIVE? No -it's clearly reading that OK. IMHO with that impressive collection of hardware you may well need to change some settings - like including network support and the like - I recommend going through all the menus and picking what you need. > IS IT MY OVERCLOCKED CPU? I THINK MY HARDWARE MEETS THE MINIMUM > REQUIRMENTS. </understatement> You could run linux on a 386 ;) HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
