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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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