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Re: CHIP CDs - NO PROBLEM!!!



On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, you wrote:
hey ,
press 'ctrl' 'alt'  '+' keys together 

regards

>Hi all,
>     After much debate I finally decided to install
> Red Hat 6.0 from the CHIP Special CD.
> Initially , I could not boot from the CDRom.
> Then I tried the autoboot.bat file in the dosutils directory. Unfortunately the path for the initrd.img file is wrongly specified in the autoboot.bat file.
>So I executed "loadlin <path for initrd.img > " at the dos prompt . The installation started this time.
>I selected the work-station option & the installation went about smoothly. Even my graphics card ( SiS 6326 ) was also configured ina breeze & I have the whole system up & running. Even LILO was configured automatically for Linux & WINNT 4.0 
>I guess I am one of those lucky guys considering the problems people are facing with the CDs.
>
>Any way, I have one question. By default , Linux is starting with the 8-bit 640x480 mode.
>How do I change this to 800x600 mode.
>Please help me out on this.
>
>cheers,
>Karthik K H
>
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