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Re: Linux won't install on Digital Venturis



Aharon Schkolnik <aharon@healdb.matat.health.gov.il> 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.

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

>   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.

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

Evgeny

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