Re: problem installing RH5

[Seth Paine <sethp mediaone net>]

Thanks for the advice.  It got me one step further.  I typed in what you put
below.  When I did that, It said
Unzip: not a zip file.
then it gave me a bunch of lines of # signs, then it gave me
Bad filehdr magic number 0X0 should be 0X183
MILO: Failed to load the kernal.

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Steve Frampton wrote:

> Yeah...damn thing.  I never got past that either, until I tried the
> following silly thing:
>
>     boot fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1
>
> Best of luck!
>
> P.S. I've started typing up an Alpha install document.  Basically
> installing 5.0 on my Alpha XL 233 and getting it ready for prime-time was
> a *nightmare* for me, and then I decided to wipe my system and do it again
> earlier this month just so I could document it -- and it was a *nightmare*
> again.  :-)  The document is not complete yet, but if you have any more
> problems, it might help you out.
>
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