It's an older machine (IBM 2144-86P Aptiva Pentium 60MHz, 96Meg RAM) and
I have to boot from floppy... it won't even boot from the hard drive ('cause I put in a bigger one than IBM
shipped). With RH8 it would boot from the floppy disk then bring up the
system from there... works
fine...
Last night
I upgraded to FC1 from RedHat 8 and that went OK...
I used the text
install because I have never been able to get X working on this machine.... it's
under-powered for GUI anyway...
When I did the
upgrade to FC1, I created a boot diskette... but when all is said and done and I
try to boot from there, I just get a message that says "boot failed"... I tried
several times... tried re-inserting the disk etc... nope.
Now, I try to do the
upgrade again, and it just hangs in the "searching for packages to upgrade"
stage. (I left it all night in case it was just "slow")
I was expecting it
to basically go through the upgrade process quickly, giving me a chance to
create another boot disk....
Does any body have
any ideas how I can get this thing to boot up?
I'm trying to avoid
having to do a "clean" install and wipe everything out.... it's not major, just
inconvenient.... :-)
Thanks,
Don
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