Linux!? (fwd)

[Greg Hankins]

Can someone help this guy?  I'm time-challenged.

Greg

>From gt1135a at prism.gatech.edu Sun Jan 22 18:28:24 1995
>
>Hello, you don't know me, but I was going through your most excellent web
>page the other day, and I happened upon you link to Linux.  I had heard
>about it, and decided it was time to install it and give it a try.  The
>following gives an account of my attempt at installation, so if you don't
>want to hear about it, just let me know who I should ask.  Thanks.
>
>I ftp-ed all the faqs and READMEs I could find, as well as Rawrite, Gzip,
>and the contents of a1-a4 (this is is the slackware ver I am trying to
>install).  I created a bootdisk and a rootdisk.  After all that, I booted
>with the bootdisk and rooted (?) with the rootdisk.  I got to the prompt
>("#") and I typed "setup".  Oh, by the way, I am using umsds144.gz as the
>bootdisk, because I wanted to install linux to my DOS partition to give it
>a once-through before re-partitioning.  Anyway, in setup, when it asks for
>source directories, I have tried everything under the sun, but it never
>works!  My installation disks are in C:\LINUX\INSTALL as a1, a2, etc..  I
>tried "/linux/install", and "/dev/hda1/linux/install", and everything
>else, but it says "Invalid Directory".  So I gave that up and tried to
>boot from floppy disk.  That seemed to be working (during setup) until I
>told it to install. At that point, the program seemed to be doing
>something, but never accessed my floppies, and wrote something at the
>bottom of the screen too fast to read, and then returned me to the setup
>menu!  What do I do?  I have read all the help, and most of the help says
>"this help is probably not necessary" :).  If you want some mo' info, let
>me know.  Thanks again.
>
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>Georgia Tech Computer Science Major  |  of number theory include undecidable
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