[ale] Red Hat installation question answered and a new bus mouse question

[Alfred Grahame Leach]

Thanks to those who answered my question so quickly.  The problem was a 
bad boot image - I believe I got it from the InfoMagic November diskset.  
The one I'm using now is from the RedHat March distribution.  I still get 
the message about memory being tight, but the boot does succeed - and all 
of my packages are being installed as we speak.  (color me psyched...)

I'm having a different problem now - the bus mouse on this system 
responds strangely in X - upon startup, the mouse parks itself in the 
upper left-hand corner of the screen when the screen goes blue.  From 
there, it will only move to the right along the top of the screen when 
the mouse is moved to the left or down (right and up cause no movement).  
I also don't see the little 'click here if everything looks ok' window.  
Is this a case of setting the bus mouse IRQ via 'linux bmouse=<IRQ>'?  I 
kind of don't think so, since there is some reaction to the mouse 
movement...  Again, any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

- Al

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 15:30:11 -0400 (EDT)
 From: Alfred Grahame Leach <aleach at gaia.cc.gatech.edu>
To: ale at cc.gatech.edu
Subject: Red Hat installation question


I've just inheritted a Dell 425s/L at my summer internship, and been 
charged with installing Linux on it.  I'm attempting to install Red Hat 
3.0.3.  The problem I'm having is that the boot is failing with the 
following error:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
boot:
Loading linux........
Uncompressing Linux... large kernel, low 1M tight...


crc error


-- System halted
------------------------------------------------------------------------

_Sometimes_ when I boot specifying "linux ramdisk" or "linux floppy" the 
boot will succeed, but NOT CONSISTENTLY.  The machine is configured with 
8M of RAM, 640k conventional, 7456k extended, 0 upper.  I'm wondering if 
the problem is that there is no upper memory configured (and, thus the 
first 1M only has 640k, which is not enough for the boot image).  I've 
been trying to figure out how to do a hardware reconfigure on this 
machine, but to no avail - none of the standard boot-time key sequences 
work to get me into the hardware setup...  so any clues regarding how to 
do this on a DELL would likewise be appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any clues...

- Al


  +-----------------------+----------------------------+-------------------+
  | Al Leach              |  Georgia Tech              | Sailing is:       |
  | Graduate Student      |  College of Computing      |  hours and hours  |
  | MS, CS/Networking     |  Atlanta, GA 30332         |  of boredom,      |
  +-----------------------+----------------------------|  punctuated by    |
  | email: aleach at cc.gatech.edu                        |  moments of sheer |
  | WWW: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/aleach   |  stark terror...  |
  +----------------------------------------------------+-------------------+
  |     < Georgia Tech - Olympic Village of the 1996 Summer Olympics >     |
  +----------------------------------------------------+-------------------+