Re: Installation

["M.C. Vernon" <mcv21@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> >Hmm... it might seem silly, but try putting a CDROM in the drive - my
> >system took _ages_ until I did this - looking at the logs showed it was
> >trying in vain to find a FS on the <empty> CD drive...
> >
> >Matthew
> >
> I am booting linux from cd-rom

Ah.... In that case, try making a set of boot floppies (rescue and drivers
disks, and possibly the base system too) - some vendor's CDs don't boot
very well..

Matthew

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