Installation

[Brian Kelsay]

You could also make a bootable install floppy.  That's what I did to
solve the hardware issue.  The instructions are in the readme file on
the CD, readable under Windows.   Use "rawrite.exe" and the .img file
that on the CD.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Edelman" <edelman at speedscript.com>
To: "jose sanchez" <j_r_sanchez at yahoo.com>; <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: Installation

> I remember having the same problem a year or two ago when I tried
installing
> RH6.2. I was using older hardware as well. It seemed to me to be some
kind of
> silly timeout in RH's install program when accessing the cdrom. I
tried
> switching out the cdrom with something newer and everything went fine
then.
> Apparently the cdrom didn't spin up fast enough or something. You
might want
> to try a newer release of RH, as the installation program has become
much
> smoother.
>
> On Tuesday 23 October 2001 08:07 am, you wrote:
> > The CD is an copy I got from the package given in the
> > Linuxgruven "course". The computer I'm installing on
> > is a P75, 8MB Ram, and 900MB HDD.
> >
> > I also tried to install on a P 166Mhz, 16MB Ram, 1.2GB
> > HDD and had the same problem. I have two CD's and same
> > problem...
> >
>
>
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