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When Linux boot files attack!
Apr. 28th, 2003 01:08 amI've had a grand day running errands with Maggie. She decided to drive and she did a fine job negotiating the Massholes. Hooray for her!
We ran into![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tafkar and her mom coming out of the grocery store. Her mom had great stories about living in what used to be the West End of Boston and what is now MGH. It seems a lot of graft turned a sizable neighborhood into... umm... a sign that says "If you lived here, you'd be home now" on the end of Storrow Drive. She had a friend from grade school (or maybe it was her sister; I wasn't taking notes) that took a course featuring a textbook about their old neighborhood and how all that happened. It's like finding out everyone else in the world calls your old swimming hole the Olduvai Gorge. I was fascinated.
We got back from shopping and I eventually got around to building boot disks for installing Red Hat Linux 7.3 on my cousin's old NEC laptop (the 100 MHz laptop with 40 MB of RAM and a good, strong battery). When I tried to use the disks, I wound up with a "signal 11" error. Huh?
Turns out signal 11 is the computer saying "I went looking for data in location X, but all I got was this lousy t-shirt." This error usually comes from fubar compiling, but in this case it comes from Red Hat's boot floppy images. The best part of my research on this was finding this blathering (don't read it if you aren't pretty dang geeky) and reading that their solution to Red Hat's failing is to install SuSE (a European Linux distro) instead. To think Red Hat links this page directly...
This error stuff has been cute and all, but it suggests I may want to install something other than Red Hat on this laptop. Slackware, maybe. Any suggestions? Please keep in mind that this laptop has no CD-ROM, only a floppy and a hard drive someone already partitioned. I was planning to grab the install from the CD-ROM by having the laptop's PCMCIA NIC transfer all data from my main Linux machine over my router. If you have experience with this kind of magic, I'm all ears!
-do clones dream of Dolly the sheep? Dante
We ran into
tafkar and her mom coming out of the grocery store. Her mom had great stories about living in what used to be the West End of Boston and what is now MGH. It seems a lot of graft turned a sizable neighborhood into... umm... a sign that says "If you lived here, you'd be home now" on the end of Storrow Drive. She had a friend from grade school (or maybe it was her sister; I wasn't taking notes) that took a course featuring a textbook about their old neighborhood and how all that happened. It's like finding out everyone else in the world calls your old swimming hole the Olduvai Gorge. I was fascinated.We got back from shopping and I eventually got around to building boot disks for installing Red Hat Linux 7.3 on my cousin's old NEC laptop (the 100 MHz laptop with 40 MB of RAM and a good, strong battery). When I tried to use the disks, I wound up with a "signal 11" error. Huh?
Turns out signal 11 is the computer saying "I went looking for data in location X, but all I got was this lousy t-shirt." This error usually comes from fubar compiling, but in this case it comes from Red Hat's boot floppy images. The best part of my research on this was finding this blathering (don't read it if you aren't pretty dang geeky) and reading that their solution to Red Hat's failing is to install SuSE (a European Linux distro) instead. To think Red Hat links this page directly...
This error stuff has been cute and all, but it suggests I may want to install something other than Red Hat on this laptop. Slackware, maybe. Any suggestions? Please keep in mind that this laptop has no CD-ROM, only a floppy and a hard drive someone already partitioned. I was planning to grab the install from the CD-ROM by having the laptop's PCMCIA NIC transfer all data from my main Linux machine over my router. If you have experience with this kind of magic, I'm all ears!
-do clones dream of Dolly the sheep? Dante
