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sorry to bother again. I just finished installing a larger RAM card, Ultra ATA-RAID card and a 160 gig HD into my retired 333 Mhz PC. I had to use the Windows 98 boot disc to get it up and running. I bought a copy of Linux. I have tried loading it two ways. One-booting the computer with the copy in the CD drive. It loads for a period, then I get a error message "can't access tty; job control turned off." I have tried loading the program onto the computer also. I succeeded but can't identify a existing windows program to open it. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Sorry to hear you got ripped off buying a Linux CD off Ebay..I would recomend you download or have them ship you a {free} cd of Ubuntu Linux.
I don't know if they ripped me off, but they only sent a CD-R and no documentation. I sent questions through the ebay mailing system but got no response. I will take a look at your link. Thanks for your help.
again, I am reminded of the generosity of the members here, and also of my complete lack of computer hardware knowledge. You have given me suggestions that I will attempt to follow up on. Thanks again.
I hope I'm not going over stuff you already know, but just in case it helps here goes.This type of installation is whats called a live-CD, it has to boot off the CD. In order to do that the BIOS has to be set so the CD is higher in the boot order than the hard drive.
It sounds like this might be happening already. If so there should be a bunch of messages showing up on the screen as it starts to read the CD, those messages can be very important in trying to debug problems, at least they let you know what it was trying to do just before the problem happened.
Does this computer have an integrated video and sound on the motherboard or are they separate cards? If separate cards you might want to try taking out cards that are not aboslutely necessary for booting the computer. The fewer pieces of hardware it has to deal with the better when you are debugging a problem.
Does your BIOS have a memory check? If so make sure its turned on at boot. I just had a computer that would load windows, but it wouldn't load linux. One of the memory cards was bad and the two OSes used different sections of memory. When I turned on the full memory test in the BIOS it found the bad memory.
It MIGHT be lack of memory. The live-CDs make a ram disk out of memory and copy big groups of files into this ram disk. If you don't have enough memory it can't do this. Many live-CDs will have an option to run directly off the CD rather than copying to the ram disk, this can use a LOT less memory but runs a lot slower. If all you are doing with the live-CD is booting it so you can copy the OS to hard disk this is not a bad way to go. The documentation with the CD should have told you how to enter such an option if its available. You usually type some function key or CTRL key at a certain point in boot up. It usually says so on the screen and waits a couple seconds for the key before continueing.
I hope this helps.
Could be a number of things. An error about not accessing a TTY usually means it can't kick open a shell, or command prompt, or it can't fire up X, the graphical user interface. Could you list your complete specs, including make/model of your motherboard, video card, RAID card, and whatever other cards you have loaded in?
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Did you download and burn the Linux CD as a bootable disk? Did you run error checking on the burned Linux CD to see if it was perfect? Which flavor (version) of Linux did you download?I've run Linux (Red Hat/Fedora Core) for a number of years and never had a problem installing it on any machine.
I bought the copy of Linux off ebay. It is labeled PcLinux XP OS new installation CD.
I'm not familiar with that version of Linux. You might try downloading the Fedora version from http://www.redhat.com/fedora/. While others have their favorite versions, Fedora Core is certainly widely supported and lots of help is available. (See http://www.fedoraforum.org/ as an example.)To install, you're going to need to boot with the Linux kernel, not Win98, so the CD boot method is the one you generally need for a home user install.
I'm wondering if the Raid card is causing you a problem. Doesn't sound like you have a Raid set up so you might try an install with the motherboard HD controller. If that works, then try installing the Raid card later.
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