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Re: Linux won't install on Digital Venturis



>>>>> "Evgeny" == Evgeny Stambulchik <fnevgeny@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il> writes:

    Evgeny> Aharon Schkolnik <aharon@healdb.matat.health.gov.il>
    Evgeny> wrote:
    >> Hope someone can help me here. I'm trying to install Linux
    >> (slackware 3.0) on a Digital Venturis machine. I'm doing a NFS
    >> installation. I get all the way through the installation,
    >> create a boot disk, configure (including LILO on the hard
    >> disk), the whole thing. Then I reboot. The stupid machine
    >> doesn't give me LILO - it boot into DOS.

    Evgeny> This sounds like you didn't INSTALL LILO when it had been
    Evgeny> configured.  Or is there such a weird BIOS with boot/virus
    Evgeny> protection that silently prevents you from writing to the
    Evgeny> boot sector?


	Could there be such a thing ?

    >> O.K., I try the boot diskette. It gets as far as typing LI, and
    >> then hangs. I've re-installed three times already - same thing.

    Evgeny> Defective diskette or floppy drive. I can't imagine
    Evgeny> something different.


	Well, the drive is O.K. - it boots fine from the installation
diskette (net, and color144).


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