Problems when installing Fedora

[Darragh]

Thanks Jinina,

I'm using a few machines here.  I installed Mandrake on one but find that I
have a lot more work to do to get it up and running than I have in Fedora.
For that reason I've installed Fedora on another machine.  I had it on it
before but according to someone who I now know is speaking threw his ***
Fedora was causing problems with my partition tables.  Mandrake caused the
same problem when I installed it on this system as well so I'm just putting
it down to bad luck at the moment.

As fedora has what I'm looking for in terms of application and update
management, adaptive software and speech right from the start of
installation I'm going to stick with it.

I may not have to reinstall but I'm still new to all this stuff so I think
its the easiest way of resolving the problems which have come up.

Thanks

Darragh


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: Problems when installing Fedora


> OOpps. My fault and very sorry for that.
>
> I think the answer is simple. You don't have a path to mkinitrd or
> chkconfig. So, the answer to specify the full path. I'll change that
> now.
>
> Darragh--I haven't seen your other message yet, but don't jump to the
> conclusion that you need to reinstall. It's probably not correct.
>
> PS: What happened? I thought you had Fedora working, and then I saw
> posts from you talking about Mandrake. Are you working on multiple
> machines?
>
> Darragh writes:
> > From: "Darragh" <lists at digitaldarragh.com>
> >
> > Hello all,
> > I'm having a problem with the installation of Fedora.
> >
> > When I finish the main installation and I'm told to reboot I follow the
instructions on the new howto.
> >
> > I go into the second console and change to the
> > /mnt/sysimage
> > I use the command
> > chroot .
> > then I change to
> > cd /lib/modules
> > then I use the following command
> > mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-{tab} --with=speakup_apollo {TAB}
> >
> > but it tells me that it cant find the initrd command.
> >
> >
> > same with the next line
> > chkconfig --level 2345 firstboot off
> > it tells me that it cant find the chkconfig command.
> >
> > After that I just decided to hell with it and rebooted the machine.
> >
> > Do any of you know what's rong?
> >
> > I'm finished the installation but have to do it again as something whent
rong shortly afterwords I'll cover it in the next mail.
> >
> > Darragh
> >
> >
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>
> Janina Sajka
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>
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