installation

[Lee]

Agree with the possibility of a bad install cd or cdrom drive. Also I
would forget Partition Magic and use the expert mode on the install cd
to set up the Linux partitions and put the boot up in the mbr.

Lee




"Net Llama!" wrote:
> 
> First, kill the HTML email, and fix your word wrap so its something
> under 80char/line.
> 
> It sounds like you might have a bad install CD, considering the number
> of probems you're experiencing out of the box.  Also, verify that your
> floppy drive works, and that you have a good floppy.
> 
> Finally, be aware that COL2.4 is *OLD*, really old.  THe latest from
> Caldera is COL3.11.
> 
> Herb DeLong wrote:
> > Installing e-desktop 2.4, onDell Pentium4. I used Partition Magic 7.0 to
> > partition hard drive. Iinstalled with CD. at end of install screen
> > askedto make rescue disk. I complied and window came up with
> > warning."Could not copy kernel to floppy" I clicked O.K. Then finish and
> > Error note came " No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel"
> > left Alt-F2 and F3 would not let me enter anything. Though I didn't know
> > what to enter I was going to try something. I had to use Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
> > What should I have done? at each problem?
> > Thanks in advance.
> 
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