kernel panic, and installing gcc

["Jeckyl Hyde" <djmh2 hotmail com>]

Hi,

Time and time again. I get this : Kernel Panic: unable to mount fs on... 
message and I have to reinstall Linux from scratch. I have opted to boot 
always from a floppy and am not giving up on that. First  thought that my 
boot floppy is corrupted, so next time I installed Linux I made multiple 
coopies with mkbootdisk. But then I got it again, and I reinstalled. Then 
its about 5 times. I even changed computers two times. I changed the 
installation CD. Nothing worked. It works good for a while, then the same 
kernel panic msg on boot.

What I want here is that if you could tell me where to find info about this 
cursed kernel panic msg.

One more thing. If I dont install gcc at first time, and I want iot, one 
option is to reinstall linux. the other, I presume, must be to unzip a .gz 
or .tar file. But I dont see any gcc.gz file on my CD though there are 
gawk.gz and others. What to do!!!

Thanks

(and dont) Hyde



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