Re: Starting over

[Aaron <aaron greyhour com>]

what is the error message you get?

Aaron
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On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Darryl Gibson wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> Last night I decided it wasn't I good idea to learn Linux on a machine
> that had a flakey install. So I fdisked, formatted and rebooted my hard
> drive, and there was that damn LI prompt again. So I fdisk /mbr ed, and
> took care LI, for good, I hoped. I fdisked and formatted again, and got
> a c: prompt, yea.
> 
> I loaded my cd driver, and started the RH5.2 install, which went well,
> though I ran out of virtual memory, and I had a couple of error
> messages, but nothing that required intervention on my part.
> 
> About 3/4 of the way through the install the system appeared to hang,
> and I went to bed in a bad mood.
> 
> To my suprise, I had a root prompt this morning!
> 
> I've spent the last six hours trying to get X Window's Control Panel
> working! I set the root's execute permission through file manager and I
> enabled the control panel through linuxconf, but I still can't run
> Control Panel! I've searched the howtos, mans, and the RH website. And I
> red the Getting Started doc. 
> 
> WHAT am I missing? 
> 
> All I want to do is to get an e-mail/webserfer box working, so I can
> start over again on this system.
> 
> I was hoping this would be a weekend project, and it's now two+ with no
> light at the end of the tunnel.
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Darryl
> 
> 
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