Hi,
This calls for some intervention by voice. Call me at the number at
the top of this message, or send me yours and I'll call you, and, I know
that you're in
Sweden.
HTH.
--
Bill in Denver
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
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> Hi Janina,
> There were many questions, and i'll try to answer them in there
> context, here goes:
>
> On 17 Oct 2003 12:00:59 (my local time 18:00:59), you typed::
> JS> Where did you get the Red Hat 9 that you used to install? In particular,
> JS> what kernel version are you running? What do you get from:
>
> JS> rpm -q kernel
>
> Well, i've got the Red Hat Shrike distro with Speakup from
> the linux-speakup.org ftp site. Haven't gotten into Linux since i
> installed it, so can't really say what kernel i run.
>
> JS> However, I have no idea whether this will fit on a boot floppy. Haven't
> JS> looked into that. So, let me ask the threshold question about the boot
> JS> floppy. Why? Why did "it become necessary" to boot from a floppy, as you
> JS> write?
>
> Because it seems Lilo didn't make it into the MBR even if i told it
> to. I guess that the partition that holds Linux lies after the first
> 1024 cylinders of my hard drive, (/dev/hda). Symptoms are: When i
> start my computer it boots right into Windows XP, no Lilo, or so it
> seems, but remember, i'm a newbie and may have missed something
> obvious.
>
>
>
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