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1999-12-04 Thread Ray Woodcock
Making a little progress here. Many thanks to John Pearson for the most recent increment. Next: 1. Not sure whether my installation completed. I was looking at someone's comments about editing a file in /usr/src/linux, so I tried to go there. But I don’t seem to have any such directory. Here

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1999-12-02 Thread Ray Woodcock
Amazingly, I finally have a successful installation of slink. Whew! I missed a couple of bends in the road, however: (1) The opportunity to select a profile blew right past me somehow. What can I enter at the bash prompt to return to that stage in the game? (2) How can I remove PCMCIA now? __

Installing Slink (continued)

1999-12-01 Thread Ray Woodcock
Is there a place to submit narratives of difficulties with login etc.? I Maybe I (or someone) could write up a clarification or a blow-by-blow explanation for this kind of stuff, which must seem terribly obvious to y'all. Or perhaps there already is a blow-by-blow that I should be reading? For m

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1999-12-01 Thread Ray Woodcock
Greetings. I am installing slink. I am at this choice: Configure Device Driver Modules Select Category Block -- disks and disk-like devices I am using a PC that runs Win98 on C and will run Linux on D. I have configured and mounted Linux partitions on D using Partition Magic 4.0. The pa

Snafu

1999-12-01 Thread Ray Woodcock
I'm somewhere in the process of installing slink.  There was an interruption during installation, I rebooted, etc.  I guess I could wipe out the disk and start over, but I'd kind of like to understand where I am and why.   The system boots and reboots OK.  I've been playing around with bash