loadlin and /

1998-06-06 Thread The . Sage
Is it correct that if I am using loadlin to boot Linux from a DOS partition, I can put the root for Linux in a logical partition, i.e. it doesn't have to be hda2-4? Can all Linux partitions then be contained in a logical partition or do any of them have to be a primary partition? Larry Walewski

mounting remote file systems...

1998-06-03 Thread The . Sage
I recently installed Debian 1.3 and have a few questions. I boot to DOS and use loadlin to boot Linux. Linux begins its startup and continues fine (although I do see some notes about no PCI Bios not being present..how do I skip that check?). Linux mounts my local file systems fine, then I get th

Re: Drive proving stubbornly unmountable

1998-06-03 Thread Witwerg the Sage
Damon Muller wrote: > > G'day, > > > Possible error sources are : > > -the partition was never made a vfat partition by > > Windows95, but is still a fat partition > > Sort of don't think this would be it, as it had files with long file > names in it. I don't think

Re: system does not recognize 64 MB RAM

1998-05-29 Thread Witwerg the Sage
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libc6 install help

1998-05-28 Thread The . Sage
Hello, I'm trying to upgrade to libc6 and am running into a few problems. First I didn't have a new enough version of libc5, so I got version 5.4.38-1 and installed that. Installation went fine until the end wherein it informed me I didn't have /usr/lib/libc.so, and thus exited with an error. Lo

Low memory install help

1998-05-19 Thread The . Sage
I need help trying to install Debian on a system with low memory. I have made the Rescue disk and the Low memory root disk. Setup goes fine until after "Copying root filesystem from floppy to /dev/hda10 ...". This copies from drive A: and completes with "done." Should it be copying from drive B: