I can boot debian from flopy but no matter what "boot order" I use under the BIOS the Gigabite 586DX dual pent will not start linux
I see 1FA: as a prompt these are the BIOS messages Award modular BIOS v4.51 Intel 430HX PCI for dual pentium v3.43 award plug&play BIOS extension v1.0A detects my cdrom adaptec ultra/ultra wide BIOS v 1.24s2 some one said they were running red hat on a system with hard ware like mine: I have 430HX chipset, IDE hard drive fujitsu ,matrox mellinium2 4meg,ide cdrom from goldstar,adaptec 2940U controller this system had DOS, BEOS & NT running as well as can be expected that is. any advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated I can program but I am new to linux this is my second try at an install ie i spent several days on slackware only to have various people shrug though I was informd that sacrifice of small animals might be benificial. my slackware install went well except for the "not able to read my slack ware cdrom after I booted...yes I mounted it. I could not figure out the file type? I tried two of the most obvious chices given by the book and the sys admin. I even installed all the "stuff" befor the "smoke test" and was able to fiddel a littel to see what was there after boot...I aparintly needed to use a different vedio server fro Xfree and was trying to get it from the cd when I realized that linux could not read the file system.this has no relationship to the above problem but hey thanxs for reading this far got any ideas?
