AARRRRGH!!! (was RE: Linux Install error)

[Jerry Feldman]

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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:45:06 -0500
"Don Levey" <lug at the-leveys.us> wrote:

> I've just spent a most frustrating 36 hours.
> 
> I've been putting together a new machine (hardware specs below), and
> attempting to create a dual boot (Win2k and Fedora).  The Win2k
> installation went smoothly.  Linux, not so much.
> 
> New machine:
> Motherboard: ASUS A7V8X-X
> CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (1.91Mhz +512 L2 cache)
> Memory: PC2700 512 Mb
> Disks: (1) 40 Gb Western Digital
>        (1) 120 Gb Maxtor
> CD R/W & DVD combo
> Video: ATI RADEON 9600 PRO
> NIC, Sound integrated with Motherboard
> 
> I've installed Win2k on the 40Gb drive, set up as hda.  I've set up
> two partitions, for a C & D drive, and a small extra partition to be
> used for/boot on linux.  No problems so far.
I think the other posts are pretty good. 
I never use a /boot partition. The original reason for /boot was because
of a limitation in LILO that was corrected several years ago. However,
on reason for having the /boot file system is that you can protect it
from some problems and corruption in normal operation by keeping it
unmounted. 
In our installfests we always encounter a problem where some distro does
not install on some hardware. However, we have generally switched to
another distro and everything installs. I've been very successful with
SuSE, but Mandrake and Red Hat 9 have always worked well. I teach Linux
on the Desktop at Northeastern, and we installed SuSE 8.2 as a network
install in class, dual booted with Windows XP. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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