John Shepherd wrote: > > Thanks go to the one person who wrote me and suggested > I install from the CD instead of floppies. > Unfortunately, my only access to a CD burner was > through my now-dead windows machine and I don't have > the patience to order CDs through the mail. > > So.....I took a guess that the partition I created for > /boot was too small. Maybe right, maybe not, but > after increasing that partition to 200 meg, I was able > to run through the 4 driver diskettes and 11 base > diskettes and now I have a prompt! woohoo!! > > On to learning linux and figuring out how to get my > modem, NIC and CD drives running.....
That does indeed seem to have been your problem then. IMHO 200 meg is an enormous partition for /boot - I have 43 meg and its usage is 3%. Tom
