Hi!

I' m trying to revive the antiquated PC hardware,
Here's my PC hardware composition as following:
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inter pentium 166 CPU,
64 M RAM,
inter 430 TX mother-board,
quantum 4.3G hard disk(bigfoot)5200 n,
Creative graphic blaster exxtreme PCI graphic card(Permedia 2 Rev1 chipd),
1.44"diskette drive,
Yamaha (XG)724 F-V chipset based PCI sound card ,
Lite-on 52X speed CD-rom,
WS5628-B PCI modem( Ambient MD5628D-L-C Chips)/( another name:intel536ep),
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someone suggested me to install vector 4.0, then I'd give vector linux 4.0 a try, just downloaded vector linux 4.0 latest ISO. image to fat partition and extracted it to as ...c:/veclinux,
later with rawwriteWin I made boot&root diskes from
"bootide.img&root.img", once reboot, it went smoothly,installation went on, but extremly slow,"Bzip2 veclinux" took about 10mins,"Bzip2 xfree43" took 15 mins,.... once finished "bzip2 xfree43" it suddenly stalled at
" Chicken!!!" ....."typing passwd to fix" "other console messages" before going to hardwares 'setup&config.

What special command should I apply to go with installation from HDD succefully for vector4.0 with boot&root floppy disces?


Later ON I PLUGOFF QUUNTUM HDD AND PLUG IT INTO ANOTHER NFORCE2 MB(EPOX-8RDA3G), INSTALLATION WENT SMOOTHLY,...I put it back to that antiquated PC, let sys. to detect hardwares antomaticly,it's ok , but can only enter Vector linux by
booting from bootdisk ( typing : linux root=/dev/hda1 ro)..No lilo .while lilo can't be installed either to superblock or floppy disk, ONLY ERRO MESSAGE, I tried editing /etc/lilo.conf then /sbin/lilo, it prompted " partition entry not found", in fact partition 're just there by typing "fdisk -l",/HDA1,/HDA5,/HDA7,ETC
OF COURSE I SET BIOS 'S VIRUS WARNING TO "DISABLE" ALL THE TIME
.......HOW SHOULD I FIX THE LILO ISSUE?




Yet I still haven't figure out how to boot with vector linux 4.0 live cd's ISO image (on Fat partition of windows) for having a try Vectorlinux 4.0 live CD?anyone did run it from HDD successfully?

there's no Cd-writer around me at all. only HDD install with floppy & iso image suit me .

you see from main doc .of vector &website '
, I found no clue of solutions at all.

Hope you could help me through your real experiences with vector 4.0& live.

Write me back then.




tom