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Re: Installing Linux on a new Compaq Armada 1700!



Thanks!







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Adham Hashibon
The Physics Department,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa 32000, Israel
Tel:972-4829-2043, Fax:972-4822-1514
****** Live long and prosper ******
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On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Ariel Biener wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Hashibon Adham wrote:
> 
> Boot with the rescue diskette, edit lilo.conf, tell it to use the master
> boot record, run /sbin/lilo, reboot.
> 
> --Ariel
> 
> > Hi, We are -- right at this moment -- installing RH 5.2 on a new Compaq
> > Armada 1700 lptop which comes with 5GB disk space, of which 1GB are W$95.
> > 
> > Now we have finished, but donea crucial mistake! we chose the boot
> > sector to be on /dev/hda5 (which is the Linux partition) instead of the
> > master boot,
> > 
> > Any suggestions!!!!!
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > adham
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> > Adham Hashibon
> > The Physics Department,
> > Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
> > Haifa 32000, Israel
> > Tel:972-4829-2043, Fax:972-4822-1514
> > ****** Live long and prosper ******
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> > 
> > 
> > 
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