installation

[Keith Antoine]

On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 00:55, 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.

Umm! as you have been told 2.4 is a few years old now. I have experienced what 
you have seen and sometimes I have had to do a re-install and that worked. 
One thing, are you booting from cd or floppy, if cd try a floppy boot to 
install.

I also ahve recently tried to install 2.4 and LTP on a very new computer and 
was unable to as drivers etc were not available and it did not recognise the 
newer hardware. 3.1.1 was the only option. However it is also getting old and 
Calder do not issue update rpms, nor do they nowadays offer any support.

I am in the throws of redoing all the rpms for 3.1.1, as there is no hope that 
Caldera will. As for any versions after 3.1.1 I would not hold my breath.

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Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161
Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage