[plug] New subscriber

[Bernard Blackham]

On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Anvil Iron wrote:
> I am a new subscriber,

Muahahaha. :)

> I have a pentium 100  6.4gighard drive with 28mb of RAM. this will be
> upgraded in the near future.
> I bought the "Linux pocketbook third edition" and I have the choice of
> Mandrake7.2 or Redhat7.0.
> I chose redhat simply because my isp says it has limited support for this
> package.

They're more or less fairly similar. The ISP's support (for things like
ppp) would probably work on either RH or Mandrake and probably other
distros too.

> I got this error in the disk partition stage of the install
> 
> Error Last cylinder is not free
> File ERRORS.txt not found - no verbose mesages available
> Bye!

Are you making /boot as a separate partition?

It's usually safest to make a /boot partition of about 10MB so that the
last cylinder is less 1024 because this causes havoc with some old
machines.

> Does any one know how to fix this or where I would search to find more info.

Red Hat's site usually has solutions to most common problems, but finding 
them takes a bit of digging.

> Finally am I expecting too much to run linux on the above spec machine?

Not at all. Linux will run on `ancient' 386's. What are you planning
to do with it? Our intranet server runs happily on a P75 with 32MB
RAM. Used to be used as a desktop machine running linux for web browsing,
etc.

Good luck,

Bernard.

-- 
 Bernard Blackham
 bernard at blackham.com.au