finally installed

hank hank at hanksmith.net
Sat Feb 14 12:07:25 EST 2004


what is the highest a amd 233 megahurts system can go? as far as hard drive
space?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 6:19 AM
Subject: Re: finally installed


> I'm surprised your 486 could support that big a drive. I'm
> administering a linux cluster that's got a few 486's each with an 80mb
> disk and the highest I can go up to on them is 528mb.
> On
> Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 10:46:24PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > I don't know how recednt your computer is but I would strongly
> > incourage you to create a boot floppy as well.  I just dropped in a 20
> > gig hard drive in an old 486 box here and now I can't get lilo to boot
> > from the hard drive.  It used to with the previous 10 gigger but I
> > started getting a bunch of I/O errors and dropped files so upgraded
> > the hard drive.  Thank God I built that floppy or I would be down one
> > linux machine.
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:17:56AM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> > > once you boot the pc you should install. I don't know why a manual
> > > would tell you not to do that right away. I guess I could see if you
> > > were dual booting but if you're just using linux on the system it's
> > > pretty hard to screw up. so login as root and run liloconfig. you'll
> > > want to install lilo to the mbr.
> > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:08:11PM
> > > -0500, Kyrath. (AKA Rob) wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I just finished going through the slackware 9.1 installation.
> > > > I didn't configure lilo because the manual suggested not to do it
right a way until you know more about lilo and your system.  So I guess that
I need to boot off the boot disk that was created during the installation
process.
> > > >
> > > > I haven't rebooted yet because I'm wondering how I can make sure
that it boots up with speech.
> > > > The installed kernel is "speakup.s" and I'm using an external
doubletalk.
> > > > So is there anything I should do before exiting the setup program
and rebooting my pc?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > -- Rob
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