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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bear with me, I don't actually know what I'm
doing...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a 533 Alpha on a 164SX motherboard. I
have installed NT4 on a 4GB IDE drive as a master, and then SuSE 8.1 on the
slave 13GB drive.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To install suse 8.1, I downloaded the entire thing
off the FTP and wrote it to a DVD. The line in the BIOS is something like
"boot hdc:/boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/fd0 initrd=/boot/initrd" as it was in the
readme. I have the loader stuff for MILO on the NT4 drive with the loaders
for NT, so I can start MILO without any extra disks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The first annoying this is the random "bad magic"
with packages... sometimes an install will be useless and I'll have to start
from scratch.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have, through trial and error, come to a routine
where I am able to install a functioning OS on the 13GB drive with the default
partitioning as it gives you when you just run the install. First
partition is swap, second is the actual linux.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What I can't figure out is what to do next to get
it to boot straight into linux from the hard drive. I can boot the install
DVD, then back out and tell it to "boot installed" and select hdb2 and away it
will go. Once a loonnnggg time ago I managed to boot from the hard drive
from MILO by typing *something* I am not sure but I had renamed a bunch of stuff
in linux like maybe I did initrd to vmlinuz.gz or something like
that. I've tried copying the vmlinuz in the boot folder to the root and
renaming it a million ways, but if I put anything other than "hdb2:/" after
boot, it just says a message like "path function is not directory" or
BLEH. If I type "boot hdb2:/" it spews out a buch of # signs like it's
working, but then just says "not an ELF file" errrrrr.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If anyone knows a basic start-to-finish idiot-proof
way to get this done, it would be a great help. My method as it
stands is:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Delete all partitions on the drive in the
AlphaBIOS</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Boot the DVD</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Select the packages</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just go</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>*installs*</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What do I do next? Should I be choosing some
kind of different partitioning? Am I supposed to be running some weird
function in linux? Do I have to build something? Argh!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>JA</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>