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robo555 · 07-04-2001, 03:27 AM

Just waiting for the Kernel 2.4.6 to finish download on my 56k before I boot to Linux...although I'll probably wait before I try installing the kernel.

That "newbie" installation was just plain torture...I was sitting there going up arrow, down arrow, enter, up arrow, down arrow, enter...the worse thing is I think I didn't install most of the stuff I was suppose to, eg Printer support, and it's a pain to install them again since I forgot what they're call...and when I type in pkgconfig (think that was it), I didn't know how to install the missing packages, I choose install from other directorys, and it asked for a path, and I kinda didn't know what to put, I tried /dev/hdd, maybe it's 'cos all the packages are in the CD-ROM and my CD-ROM isn't working...

I saw that /cdrom in /, I typed in cd /cdrom and it didn't work, I also tried /dev/hdd (CD-ROM's in secondary slave) and didn't seem to work either, but I was pretty tired so I'll try again, think I tried something like mount dev/hdd as well.

07-04-2001, 03:27 AM	#6
robo555 Member (8 bit) Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 193	Just waiting for the Kernel 2.4.6 to finish download on my 56k before I boot to Linux...although I'll probably wait before I try installing the kernel. That "newbie" installation was just plain torture...I was sitting there going up arrow, down arrow, enter, up arrow, down arrow, enter...the worse thing is I think I didn't install most of the stuff I was suppose to, eg Printer support, and it's a pain to install them again since I forgot what they're call...and when I type in pkgconfig (think that was it), I didn't know how to install the missing packages, I choose install from other directorys, and it asked for a path, and I kinda didn't know what to put, I tried /dev/hdd, maybe it's 'cos all the packages are in the CD-ROM and my CD-ROM isn't working... I saw that /cdrom in /, I typed in cd /cdrom and it didn't work, I also tried /dev/hdd (CD-ROM's in secondary slave) and didn't seem to work either, but I was pretty tired so I'll try again, think I tried something like mount dev/hdd as well. Last edited by robo555; 07-04-2001 at 03:32 AM.