From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Admin) Subject: a few questions Date: 21 Dec 1992 07:17:41 GMT
Hi...
I'm getting ready to install Linux as a replacement for my
existing Unix OS (its getting old, doesn't have as many features as
Linux seems to have) but currently have a couple of worries :)
The main one is my comm's card...I have an AST 4Port Board
that I currently have to install FAS to use...I hear that someone out
there currently has an AST 4Port Board running...what's involved?
I'm currently trying to install it on a Laptop (a trial run
before the big one) and seem to be having a few 'problems':
- the hard drive is old and has bad sectors. When I set up a
partition with my old OS, it does surface analysis and sets
up a 'bad sectors' map and so on...does Linux have something
similar?
- after I finish the doinstall script, I get prompted to put
in the formatted diskette (to make a boot diskette from),
which I do, and which it does...no problem...except when I
reboot...it goes through the 'Loading.....' part, and then
the screen goes black...no cursor or anything, just
black...ideas?
Please respond by email, as I currently am unable to retain
news for very long (lack of disk space)...and I have the most recent
FAQ, so please do not send that (but if it is something that I did
miss in the FAQ, please point me to it?)
Thanks...
Marc
P.S. I guess that it might make a difference...I'm using the SLS dist.
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