Re: [LI] RED HAT LINUX

[Aruneesh Salhotra <asalhotra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Arun
I will try doing that when i reach home.
I have one question.
I need to know, if there exists a difference between a hard disk of size less
than 2 GB, and a hard disk of more than 2 GB, say, size 4 GB. I heard that
there exists some difference, which enables/disables access to the hard disk
space beyond 2 GB, with older OS's.
Tell me, how should i go about installing RED HAT along with Win 95 system. I
have a 1 GB hard disk, and a 4 GB disk. I have all of my 1 GB hard disk
dedicated to Win 95, as the primary disk. Now what i have is a 4 GB hard disk,
on which i wanna give around 2 GB space to 32 bit DOS partition, and rest
allocate to RED HAT and a swap space.
help is required.
Aruneesh

Arun Sharma wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 11:10:04AM +0530, Aruneesh Salhotra wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I was trying to install RED HAT LINUX on my system.
> > The hard disk is of size 4GB. I allocated 1GB as LINUX native and 100MB
> > as swap space.
> > During the installation proces (after selecting the packages, the amount
> > of data bytes required was shown as 544MB), but during the installation
> > was on, the system crashes, giving me a termination signal 11. Can
> > somebody tell me, the reason why this could be happening.
>
> It has happened to me before, but I haven't investigated it. If you would
> like to, boot with a floppy and look in /tmp/install.log to see what
> went wrong.
>
> A retry usually succeeds for me.
>
> >
> > I have one more query. When i run AUTOBOOT from DOS, then it enters the
> > UNIX mode, and starts the application /sbin/loader.
> > After that it is done, it starts probing for the Mouse Type, it gives
> > the message "Start X failed, falling back to text mode).
> > Can someone give some insight into that, like what does it mean by Start
> > X failed. ? Does the X environment gives a GUI based installaion
> > screens. ?
>
> If you're using RH 6.1, yes it has a GUI (Python + Gtk) based install.
>
>         -Arun
>
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