Re: problem installing RH5

[Paul Tomblin <ptomblin xcski com>]

Quoting 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.

Do you have a scsi cd rom?  I had good luck with the following command:

boot -t iso9660 scd0:vmlinuz.gz root=/dev/scd0

(That's from memory, I don't remember exactly).

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