Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[cruel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (johnny bitar)]

the simple way is to remove the Win 95 hard drive and
put the other harddrive as your main one and reformat
so that its clean. Then install Linux. That what I
did for a while, till I bought a 5.1 gig drive now I
have both win and linux on the same drive. For some
reason I remember not being able to have my system
work with linux on the second drive so I used to plug
in the linux drive when I wanted linux and the win
drive when i wanted win. I have a friend who has the
same problem what he does is he boots his system with
the Suse boot disk and in menu goes to boot installed
system then he puts the device linux is installed on
and boots his system. I am sure there is a better
solution out there.  

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john bitar
cruel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

---Chandrashekar S <scshekar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recently bought the S.u.S.E 5.2 distribution to
install in my Cx6x86L 
> P166+ (cyrix processor) machine with 16mb of memory
and two IDE hard 
> drives the first containing win95 and the second
(which is a maxtor 5. 
> gb hard drive) for linux. I was able to boot using
the bootdisk and was 
> able to use fdisk to create the partitions as well
as format and assign 
> mount points to them. But when i install the
packages (i tried from 
> using the 'default', 'base' , 'minimumal', and 
> 'All' series combinations) it bummes out with an
different errors at 
> different times.... sometimes the install packages
would just hang on 
> one of the packages...of late i have been
consistently getting 
> (reproduced verbatim: 
> 
>  Force replacement of files ...
>  ... with error
> 
> i have no clue as to what is happening. i have
tried installing too many 
> times and i get the same error. When i boot using
the boot disk and use 
> the Live filesystem CD iam able to get the login
perfectly ..and iam 
> able to login as root and iam even able to mount
the harddisk that i 
> want linux on. Is there anyway i can create a base
linux install on this 
> hard disk using the Live CD (by copying files)....
> 
> i have been breaking my head over this for the past
weekends.... any 
> help would be greatly appreciated....
> 
> -thanks in advance,
> 
> chandra.
> 
> 
>
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