[olug] Fw: [huskerlug] Re: my laptop

[Jon]

Can you post the contents of /etc/lilo.conf to this list?

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 08:16:19AM -0600, Brian Wiese wrote:
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 06:24:11 -0600
> From: Brian Wiese <bwiese at cotse.com>
> To: huskerlug at freelists.org
> Subject: [huskerlug] Re: my laptop
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> I finally got a new load of a linux distro on my laptop (gw solo 9100) at
> the installfest, redhat 7.1. I did a rh7.1 install months ago, and I've
> just come to realize the same problem I have now, that I had then.  I
> installed it on my 2gig partition (6gig drive, 1st partition is 4gb for
> win98) and it works fine, and Jon with the help of
> http://www.robval.com/linux/solo/ got my X working pretty darn good... but
> my problem:
> 
> I go to boot my win98 partition, 'dos' on the gui lilo prompt (ps- how can
> I turn off that grapical lilo redhat picture? any1 know?) and ...
> HIMEM.SYS is missing.
> 
> suggestions?
> 
> I believe the issues with my laptop locking up/freezing in linux though
> (debian/redhat) must be hardware related issue, but its odd since I'm
> never really doing anything, it just locks up.
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 14:02:36 -0600
> James Worrest <jworrest at inebraska.com> wrote:
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> > 	Newbies always have problems, old-timers have problems, I think
> > you never hear from Debian or Slackware users because they must not have
> > any problems!
> 
> must be cuz they are geniuses who have been using linux for over 3 years
> or so, and in some cases over 3 whole months! (nate) grrrr... :)
> 
> > 	I'm glad to hear your friend doesn't have any Windows programs that
> > he has to run, such as income tax ones.  It  the lap-top was his only 
> > computer, he should have made it dual-boot no matter what distro he
> uses. 
> > ---Jim
> 
> and sometimes 'dual-boot' won't save you. darn Red Hat! That's what I get
> for finally trying them out, I had been resisting that on my laptop...
> unfortunately debian and mandrake failed to install nicely for me this
> time around.
> 
> > 
> > On Saturday 05 January 2002 16:14, you wrote:
> > > Jake,
> > > For the last few days I have heard lot of probs from u with ur laptop
> and
> > > SuSE7.3.In my opinion SuSE has made an early delivery of its
> package.So it
> > > will be better if you switch over to RedHat7.2.My freind use this
> distro
> > > and never faces any problem after wisely removing XP from his
> dell-Inspiron
> > > and installing RH7.2.Just try it.
> > > Sumany
> 
> Brian
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