Re: Re: I made a bol***cks of it!

Thanks for the advice everyone but I still couldn't figure it out. The
annoying thing is that it was working so well before the power plug fell
out.
Anyway, today I have even more problems, but, hopefully, not such
awkward ones. In desperation I decided to completely reinstall linux so
I started from the RedHat boot disk and installed again as Workstation.
It said that the disk would be wiped clean and so I thought 'great,
there will be nothing to cause problems again, - wrong!!
The installation of linux and xwindows seemed to go OK and it even found
my mouse and re-vitalised it (although it tells me its on cua1 whilst
windows thinks its on COM 1).
I then installed the new kernel patches (getting the 'script' error, on
the headers one but no error on the source one) and then copied the
release9J.tgz file across and (un)tarred it, again apparently OK. When I
patched it I got a message saying something about something missing from
a config.(something) file (I only just noticed this on my 4th attempt at
loading the system and I was getting a bit tired!). The make dep, make
clean seemed to go Ok but when I did make zImage it ended with a series
of error messages giving file info and saying 'system too big'. It had,
however, made a zImage file in the right /boot sub directory and so I
copied this across to /boot and tried to set up lilo. When the system
reboots now it says 'starting rtl' (I changed the label in the lilo
script) and then 'unable to find startup signature...' and the system
hangs.
Does anyone have any ideas? Does the workstation installation actually
clean the drive first or would I be better reformatting it (as dos? or
can you do it from a linux boot disk?). If the problem lies in a file,
is there any way of determining which one? I noticed that one of the
update .rpm files I have downloaded from the redhat updates site is
called just 'kernel-2.0.36-3.i386.rpm' - if the problem is with the
files on my original redhat 5.2 CD could I use this to correct the
installation and if so how?
Thanks for any help, After 4 failed attempts to reload the system today
I'm completely mentally exhausted - perhaps I'd be better off just
carrying on twiddling the knobs on my milling machine manually - the
physical exertion would be much less traumatic!! ;o)

Best wishes

Ian

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