[RULE] Intro and installation question

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Saturday 26 July 2003 10:37 am, Kevin Bullock wrote:
> Good morning all;
>
>      My name is Kevin Bullock and I am a GNU/Linux user.  I have been
> using GNU/Linux at varying degrees for about five years.  My mantra was
> "Windows Free by '03." 

Welcome aboard!

>      A installation question: I have a Toshiba Satellite 200 CDS with
> 24MB RAM and a 800MB HD.  Even when I can get packaged distros loaded
> and running, they are SO SLOW.  I came across the R.U.L.E. Project in
> "Linux Format" magazine. 

What issue? I'd like to see the article. I can't find anything rule 
related on their website.

> My last distro was Mandrake 8.2.  I have
> since fdisk'd and formated the HD.  However, even after installing RH
> 7.3 from the disk2.img and slinky.img disks, upon boot-up, I receive
> the "Stage 1" message and the machine freezes.  I am presuming that
> this is the remnant Mandrake boot-loader that I have somehow failed to
> wipe out. How can I do this.

This should be handled during install. Did you see any error messages 
during the RULE install? Stage1 seems to be a message from the "grub" 
bootloader, and slinky uses "lilo" as it's bootloader. I don't recall 
seeing any like "stage1" during a lilo boot. (But I could well be 
mistaken.)

>      I read the installation page several times, however dumb questions
> follow:  What hdx do I install to?  hda is my 'c' drive, yes?  

You would select hda as the device to install to, and then partition it 
during the install. You should create at least 2 partitions, one for 
swap, the other data. Slinky *should* refuse to continue unless you have 
at least 2 partitions one of which must be set as a swap partition.

> Do I
> need to use the slinky-v.1.0.7.img if I have the RH 7.3 disks?  Should
> I say install from cd with the slinky.img file on a cd?

You should use a more recent version of Slinky. Everything up to and 
including slinky v0.3.95 supports Red Hat's 7.x versions. Support for the 
7.x series has been dropped going forward, however.

If you run the installer and copy the install log to a floppy before 
rebooting, I can probably be of more help. At the end of the install (and 
before slinky starts unmounting filesystems) the log should be in 
/root/scripts/install.log. You can mail me the log file off list.

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