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From: Budi Rahardjo <rahard@...>
Subject: Beginner questions
Date: Sunday, March 15, 1992 - 5:13 pm

Thanks for the help I can start playing with Linux, here's what I got so far :

Trying version 0.12 :
+ able to get the boot and root images on floppies.
- the boot image decided that I have an EGAc (I have SVGA), but this is
  minor problem
- 'fdisk' reports that I have extended partition. The installation doc
  says that version 0.12 does not recognize extended partion. Oh, well.
- Every ftp sites mentioned that version 0.12 is better than 0.95.
  Should I stick with 0.12 ? But I can't use my extended partition ...
  (I have freed my F: drive for Linux, but don't know how to)

Trying version 0.95 :
+ able to get both boot and root images on 1.2 M floppies
+ boot able to detect SVGA
- then the floppy made a noise and error msgs printed :

Reset-floppy
Reset-floppy
Kernel panic: Unable to mount root

Is my copy of rootimage-0.95 bad ? or my floppy is bad ?

-- budi
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Budi Rahardjo
<rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca>      <rahard@ee.umanitoba.ca> 
Electrical Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada
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