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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.
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > 
> > 
> 
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