newbies linux adventure

[Jim]

Nothing is going to correct a scratch on the cd.


On Friday 02 November 2001 09:21, you wrote:
> I tried upgrading my RH 7.0 to 7.2 last night.  I know I have a flaky CD
> drive and was not able to boot from the genuine RH cd.  I made the boot
> disk (the dd on linux did not work, I had to use rawrite in a Win98
> machine.) and attempted the upgrade twice.  Both times I got to the 6th
> package and it could not read it from the cd.  Will try more this weekend. 
> (Hopefully with a different cd drive.)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard L. Proctor [mailto:krycom1@home.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 12:19 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: newbies linux adventure
>
> On Thursday 01 November 2001 10:53 pm, you wrote:
> > okay i had an old p1 133 mhz computer and i couldn't get linux installed
> > on it for some reason(hardware related) and EBo was gonna help me out
> > with it but something unfortunate happened to that box :( My friend
> > hooked me up with another box it also has a p1 133 mhz and i dont know
> > what board it has, but i cant get linux installed on this either, most of
> > the hardware is same as old one(HDD, ram, floppy, cdrom, NIC, sound,
> > video etc...). So my question is does anyone know where i can get some
> > old hardware that will work in this box that will work with linux, i am
> > pretty sure it has something to do with either the HD or the video card.
> > okay i just remembered this one utility that inventorys your pc and tells
> > you everything so i will list the important stuff.
> >
> > main circuit board: BIOS: Award Software 4.50PG 09/07/95
> > video: S3 Trio32/64 PCI (732/764) [Display adapter]
> > HDD: Generic IDE hard disk drive (2.15 GB) -- drive 0 - i happen to
> > remeber this being a fujitsu but i cant remember which model
> >
> > if anyone knows why those wouldn't work or where i can get stuff to
> > replace them(cheaply if possible) i would appreciate it. BTW so far i
> > have tried to install SuSE, mandrake, and zipslack and bigslack
>
> Try RedHat
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