Re: Introduction

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On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Bruce Smith wrote:

> That's fine!  I'm Bruce, vice-chairman of KLUG.

Good to meet you. :)

> All doable.  Have you learned "vi" yet?   :{)

Oh that was an adventure :)  I was even able (in grand Linux tradition) to
pass on my knowledge to someone via IRC last night.
> 
> Can I assume you have a boot diskette you can boot your system from?

You assume correctly.  The lilo.conf from the HD is:
  boot=/dev/hda1                   # Also tried /dev/hda
  map=/boot/map                    # I guess neither of these two
  install=/boot/boot.b             # Actually need to be specified..
  linear
  disk=/dev/hda
     bios=0x80
     sectors=63
     heads=32
     cylinders=528
  image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-3
     label=linux
     root=/dev/hda1
     read-only

That's about all I got..

The one on the floppy is quite similar, except it does not specify
read-only, boots from fd0, has a boot message, and a rescue label.

I don't know why it boots from the floppy and not the hd..  Hm.

> I've installed Linux on A LOT of PC's, and personally I've found 
> that Linux installs much easier on newer hardware than older PC's 
> like 386s & 486s.  (speaking of later versions of Redhat - 5.2/6.0)

Hmmm...  should I be installing an older version of Linux then?

> You may stay with Redhat 5.2 on your machine because 6.0 takes more 
> disk space, and you don't have a very big drive.

All I really want to do is web, mail, and word processing..  If I get ICQ
running, that would be very cool, but it is unnecessary.  I'd love to have
a xwin setup, but if it's as slow as this, I don't know how it could be
useful at all.  I think it would be rather cool to have a text based web
interface.

Anyhow, thanks for the advice...and for any help you can provide on the
lilo issue.  I'm now into the fourth day on it. :)

Cheers

-Brian