Re: [Sheflug] newbie questions

[Matt Fairtlough <nospam [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

Hiya Will,

>> thanks for all the suggestions--I'm hoping that at least one will work: I
>> may well try installing on a secondary IDE channel, then recompiling the
>> kernel, then moving the drive back to HPT and rebooting, especially as it
>> seems I should do this for a windows installation as well.
>
>I just saw this today:
>
>http://freshmeat.net/projects/redhat-highpointinstalldisk/
>
>Basically a tool to install RedHat 6.2 on a highpoint controller.

Yep, I got that from an URL embedded in an earlier reply, downloaded the
image, burnt it onto CD (I don't have Linux internet access at home yet, nor
do I have Linux at work), took it home, mounted it, extracted the image and
dd'd it to /dev/fd0; result:  not a boot disk.  So I gave up on that
one--maybe I wasn't supposed to boot with it, but if not, I had no idea what
to do with it.  I'm trying out a boot floppy that a colleague has built for
me and I'll let you kind folks know if/when I get RH6.2 installed.

Thanks for your clarifications on installing a new kernel:  I know think I
understand more or less how it is supposed to work, and I just succeeded in
recompiling my kernel and making a boot disk from it.

The feedback I'm getting from this group is at least 100 times faster and
more informative than the SuSE helpdesk that was the main reason I bought
their Linux from them....

cheers,

Matt.

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