I’m almost to my breaking point…for now. I’ve had Linux Redhat 7.0 since Dec. 2000. I’ve tried almost everything to install that bitch. I’ve read all the online site, I have redhat for dummies, I’ve ask the Teeming Millions, I even dropped $200 on a new HD to try and install it. Still no dice.
I bought Mandrake today which was bundeled with a special Partition Magic that would make my Linux Partitions for me (that part I’ve had the most trouble with.) I’m really afraid of loosing all the data on my 1st HD so I thought this would do the trick.
Ha, yeah, like anythings going to work out for me. I still don’t know a mount point vs. a hole in the ground.
This is driving me nuts, I wanted to have penguin power damn it! I want to be a Linux nerd! I want to compile my own kernel. Why does installing this have to be such a bitch!?
I’d love some help, but this is really more of a rant. Maybe something good could come out of it if I wrote down every fucking error I’ve gotten and post it here and let you guys have another shot at it. We’ll see, but for now, I’m accepting the fact that I will never be and uber-nerd and my future as a masterblaster computer programmer == null.
[sub]I know you’re behind this Gates, I’ll have your head on a plate adventually[/sub]
I bought Mandrake 7.0 so I could try out linux. I wanted to be an uber-nerd as well. It seemed so trendy at the time to tell people, “Yeah, I run Linux at home and is is the greatest!!”. I figured , hey, Im a smart guy, I should be useing this flawless peice of software.
Well, I used the magic software that partitions your drives automatically and basically is supposed to make it moron proof.
I must be an uber-moron, because everything went tits-up after that. After it made the linux partion it got stuck in some strange boot/lock/boot/lock loop that said it couldnt find the partition and it was going to reboot. Well, after it rebooted, it still was looking for the partition. Wash, rinse, repeat.
I had to Fdisk my computer to get out of the fucking mess. After I did that, i tried to reinstall it again with the same results. I went and bought Redhat 7.0 earlier this year and wussed out of trying it again.
Im a network engineer if you can beleive that. DOH!!
This… This is why Ghost is your special friend.
Ghost backs up your hard drive, creating a snapshot called an image, that can simply be reinstalled at any point.
Personally, I tend to keep my image burnt on a pile of CD-Rs for backup. Handy, you know.
Part of Norton Systemworks 2001.
Well, having little or no knowledge of your problems, I’ll take a stab at helping:
First, is your hardware all compatible?
Next:
The last time I installed slackware, I had no trouble: Boot from the floppy’s, fdisk the drive, create and format (or is it newfs?) the partition(s), install. This was on a 100MHz pentium and a 1GB drive. So, I’d suggest trying to create partitions with a slackware boot disk, then install red-hat.
Are you trying to dual-boot with something like LILO?
BTW, a mount point is a directory. This may not be 100% absolutely technically accurate, but you can think of like such:
A directory points to files. That is, the directory contains the information that lets the OS know where on the disk (physically) the files are.
A mount point is just a directory that points to the root of another file system.
Like I said, I don’t know exactly what your troubles are…but I have been known to work tech support and instructor jobs for UNIX-y OS’s, so I might be able to give you some answers. Then again, I haven’t done Linux, so maybe not
Sounds like someone is a little edgy…
Maybe you would be in a better mood if you could get your computer to work.
You are a computer major, aren’t you?
