RE: Newbie: Multiple Installation Problems

[Mark Dohojda <Mark CARRERA com>]

which motherboard do you have?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Matthew Woodworth [SMTP:msw@qad.com]
> Sent:	Friday, August 21, 1998 2:18 PM
> To:	axp-list@redhat.com
> Subject:	Newbie: Multiple Installation Problems
> 
> 
> Friends,
> 
> I successfully installed 5.0 on my UDB several months ago.  Now, I'd
> like
> to upgrade to 5.1 but I'm having several problems.
> 
> 1.  I don't seem to have the milo.img.  Isn't this supposed to be
> there?  I
> went to
> ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/Digital/Linux-Alpha/Miniloader/latest-Ima
> ges/N
> oname/ but it didn't have a .img file.  Are these three files {
> fmu.gz,
> milo, and milo.dd} the contents of the milo.img?  I got past this
> problem,
> I think, by using the milo.img that came from my 5.0 distribution.
> 
> 2.  I successfully get into my older version of milo and type boot
> fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 .  It starts to uncompress
> vmlinux.gz when I get the error "invalid compressed format".  After
> that,
> the text is cleared from the screen to quickly to read.
> 
> Am I getting the "invalid compressed format" because 5.0 is installed
> on
> this machine?  Is it because I'm using an older milo?
> 
> Can somebody help me get the installation started?
> 
> Matthew S. Woodworth
> 
> PS I've tried two different brand new boot disks.  It isn't likely to
> be a
> bad floppy disk.
> 
> 
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