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- From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Admin)
- Subject: a few questions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.071741.21336@r-node.gts.org>
- Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:17:41 GMT
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- Hi...
-
- I'm getting ready to install Linux as a replacement for my
- existing Unix OS (its getting old, doesn't have as many features as
- Linux seems to have) but currently have a couple of worries :)
-
- The main one is my comm's card...I have an AST 4Port Board
- that I currently have to install FAS to use...I hear that someone out
- there currently has an AST 4Port Board running...what's involved?
-
- I'm currently trying to install it on a Laptop (a trial run
- before the big one) and seem to be having a few 'problems':
-
- - the hard drive is old and has bad sectors. When I set up a
- partition with my old OS, it does surface analysis and sets
- up a 'bad sectors' map and so on...does Linux have something
- similar?
-
- - after I finish the doinstall script, I get prompted to put
- in the formatted diskette (to make a boot diskette from),
- which I do, and which it does...no problem...except when I
- reboot...it goes through the 'Loading.....' part, and then
- the screen goes black...no cursor or anything, just
- black...ideas?
-
- Please respond by email, as I currently am unable to retain
- news for very long (lack of disk space)...and I have the most recent
- FAQ, so please do not send that (but if it is something that I did
- miss in the FAQ, please point me to it?)
-
- Thanks...
-
- Marc
-
- P.S. I guess that it might make a difference...I'm using the SLS dist.
-
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