Re: Small Problems

[Mike Burger <mburger bubbanfriends org>]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Ben Ocean wrote:

> Hi;
> I've built RH71 on a new box. This is my first install, although I've been
> running an RH box for a while. I had an error on install that the box
> wouldn't allow me to develop a boot disk, so I ran the following:
>
> dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
> dd: opening '/dev/fd0': Read-only file system
> rdev /boot/vmlinuz
> Root device /dev/sde1

Did you check to make sure the floppy disk wasn't write-protected, yet?

> I also had an error during the install with regard to the ethernet
> connection (eth0). The box does have an ethernet card.
> Thank you for your help,

Does the system come up and recognize the ethernet after the install?