>
> --- ramiro souto <rsouto@juno.com> wrote:
> > Hello fun seekers:
> > As must of you know at the Brandon SLUG meeting I'm
> > the idiot that has
> > never been able to install Linux on THREE DIFFERENT
> > COMPUTERS. THREE
> > DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS
> > OK, so I inherited a Windblows 95 box Pentium 133,
> > old and nice.
> > booted to a W98 diskette, performed
> > fdisk c:
> > OK
> > I have tried to install:
> > Corel = NO GO
> > Details:
> > INSTALLING COREL LINUX
> > * computer freezes and goes on and on (over 1 hour)
> > no HD action, no CD action
> >
> > SUSE 7.0 = NO GO
> > Get a bunch of scripts then after a line of numbers
> > computer freezes and goes on and on (over 15
> > minutes)
> >
> > SUSE 7.2 running from the CD = NO GO
> >
> > Then I tried:
> > fdisk \mbr
> > OK
> > Tried to install Corel, the first time I got the
> > following message:
> > error 8x10
> > Power off, power on
> > I get to the same screen as before the fdisk \mbr
> > action:
> > INSTALLING COREL LINUX
> > *
> >
> > Now I know I have a magnetic personality however
> > this is not acceptable.
> >
> > Any help will help.
> > PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
> > TIA
> > Ramiro
I had problems (that I was able to work out) with SuSE 7.0 on my 133
mHz box--but SuSE 7.2 worked well. Can you go into more detail
concerning the 7.2 installation problems? Why don't you try booting
from the floppy disk that comes with 7.2?
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Justin Keyes, m9u35@yahoo.com
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