Re: Linux EMC computer

Howdy..

My Redhat 9.0 works 100% of the time. Linux Mandrake works. Some
of the smaller distros may not (disasters?). They are getting more
like windows/MAC for non-initiated users.
I don't know hardly anything about Redhat Linux except to turn it
on. LOAD the browser, unload the camera pictures, print, word
processors. FOR that it works flawlessly. It loads a OS new each time
it starts, looks for new equipment. AND, it took me about half a day
to get the cable and router to work in Windows, about two minutes in
Linux, it grabbed the setup and numbers out of the router. MORE
friendly than windows. Linux is much closer to the hardware.

OHH my did that sound like a commercial? SOrry.. I am not happy
about the Redhat change, once again they are ignoring us small end users.

David

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Ron K <godsone@e...> wrote:
> I have one question WHY put something out that only works sometimes
?????
>
> I have bought Lenix disks twice now and thrown them all away in disgust
> !!!!!!!!!
>
> Ron
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> Jon Elson wrote:
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> >ibewgypsie wrote:
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> >>HOWDY Jon..
> >>
> >> I got it to boot, still does.. The BDI installed, just would not
> >>boot. You have to configure LILO. I had a script sent to me but not
> >>had the time to figure it all out.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >Ah, yes. So the CD boots, the install goes, but in the end you don't
> >have a system that will boot itself completely from the hard disk.
> >That sounds WAY too familiar! And, LILO is not the most obvious
> >in the way it works. If the boot track doesn't get put together right,
> >or if a critical part of the kernel lays beyond cylinder 1024, it won't
> >boot on many machines. The trick is to put a 50 MB partition right
> >at the beginning of the disk, and link it to mount point /boot. The
> >kernel, boot scripts, and a few other things like initrd.img get
put there,
> >so that any BIOS can boot from it. Then, you can put the rest of
> >everything in one partition linked to mount point "/".
> >
> >Do you know how to boot what's on the hard drive from floppy or
> >CD? Does that work? If so, then you are real close, and you are
right,
> >just making the right magic incantation over LILO will make it
> >able to boot directly from the hard drive. If the system won't
boot from
> >CD or floppy, then try the "rescue" boot from the CD, and see if you
> >can at least mount the hard drive file system and see the files.
> >
> >Jon
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