Re: XP - Me - RedHat 9 disaster.
From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com)
Date: 10/14/03
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:45:31 -0400
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 00:01:16 +1000, r i c h a r d s m a g i c
<legerdemain@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> Hey All! Ill try and keep this short...?
>
> Ho-Lee-Sheeit! I'd run knoppix on my PIII 800, 256kb, 30Gb, TNT2+TV out -
> and it ran like a champion!
>
What did you do with the knoppix disk?
> It was currently running WinMe so I upgraded to Win XP and that seemed all
> ok - it was a format and clean install after petitoning...
>
> Went to install RH9 - partitioned the disc and had its own space (15Gb) to
> run just the Desktop Setup for RH9 and it froze at the setting up of the
> screen, even tho it detected the NEC monitor and card easily before?
>
> Had to drop out of the install. Then Gimp wouldnt let me dual boot to
> windows at all and it wouldnt finish linux boot cos it didnt finish the
> install.
>
Don't you mean grub? "Four letters, starts with G, what's the
difference?"
> cant get into xp cos of gimp, gimp cant load linux cos it didnt finish the
> install?
>
> format and repeat - xp WONT install over itself now, and neither with linux
> and everytime winxp tries to reboot as part of the install, gimp stops it?!
>
> Im stuck now.
>
> I have formatted, re-(and)de-partitioned, started from scratch, used the
> origonal WinMe "restore discs" and I cant even get the restore discs to
> work - gimp stops them too and I dont have something available to rewrite
> the boot sector and I cant remove gimp cos I cant get to linux...
>
You'd think after rebooting so many times, you would know the name of
the boot program...
Try booting the Red Hat CD in rescue mode.
> yeah - longer than I thought - but pleeeeaaaassssssseeeeeeeee
> helllllllppppppppp!
>
>
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