I'm surprised too but the kernel reads them great. Earlier versions of lilo wouldn't boot with my 2.2 and 10 gig but more recent versions of lilo from Slackware 9.0 and 9.1 booted them but now the 20 gig fails at it so perhaps that's the limit. Just boot with a floppy and the rest is smooth sailing! On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 09:19:08AM -0500, Alex Snow wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
