I'm surprised your 486 could support that big a drive. I'm administering a linux cluster that's got a few 486's each with an 80mb disk and the highest I can go up to on them is 528mb. On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 10:46:24PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > I don't know how recednt your computer is but I would strongly > incourage you to create a boot floppy as well. I just dropped in a 20 > gig hard drive in an old 486 box here and now I can't get lilo to boot > from the hard drive. It used to with the previous 10 gigger but I > started getting a bunch of I/O errors and dropped files so upgraded > the hard drive. Thank God I built that floppy or I would be down one > linux machine. > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:17:56AM -0500, Alex Snow wrote: > > once you boot the pc you should install. I don't know why a manual > > would tell you not to do that right away. I guess I could see if you > > were dual booting but if you're just using linux on the system it's > > pretty hard to screw up. so login as root and run liloconfig. you'll > > want to install lilo to the mbr. > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:08:11PM > > -0500, Kyrath. (AKA Rob) wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I just finished going through the slackware 9.1 installation. > > > I didn't configure lilo because the manual suggested not to do it right a way until you know more about lilo and your system. So I guess that I need to boot off the boot disk that was created during the installation process. > > > > > > I haven't rebooted yet because I'm wondering how I can make sure that it boots up with speech. > > > The installed kernel is "speakup.s" and I'm using an external doubletalk. > > > So is there anything I should do before exiting the setup program and rebooting my pc? > > > > > > Thanks > > > -- Rob > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > -- > > Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid > > back. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
