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baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> Message from Steven
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>
>   
> > I've been trying to do a hard disk install of 
> > BasicLinux 3.5 on a Pentium I with 16MB RAM 
> >
> > when I did lilo -v, it said /boot/zimage didn't exist
> >     
>
> I assume you are installing from the floppy version
> of BasicLinux.  When you executed install-to-hd, 
> did it ask you to insert the first floppy and then 
> it copied from it?  That was zimage going into /boot
>
> If there is no zimage in your /boot directory, you
> probably are still running on the ramdisk.  As the 
> instructions say, you need to reboot and run from
> the HD partition you have just created.  On that
> partition you should find the zimage file sitting
> in the /boot directory.  It is on that partition
> you execute:  lilo -v
>
>   
> > All of the documents I've seen on this seem to 
> > deal with BasicLinux 3, not 3.5 (Is there a difference?) 
> >     
>
> Nope.  BL3.5 is just the current version of BL3.
> Anything we say about BL3 applies to version 3.5
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
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Ok, thanks for that, it worked.


In another issue, albeit somewhat unrelated, when I boot BasicLinux from 
the HDD I get the welcome screen, but instead of getting "Press Enter to 
activate this console" I get nothing, just a blinking cursor.
Nothing I type gets printed on the screen, but caps lock still works 
(i.e., the light on the keyboard lights up) so it  doesn't seem to be 
locked up.
This doesn't happen when I boot from the floppy though...