In article <pIydnak8ktGyBgffRVn-qg@comcast.com>, "marcusm
<\"marcusm7\"@" <"comcast.netWork> says...
> lgb wrote:
> >
> > When I tried to boot, I got a message about the superblock being
> > clobbered. It asked me to enter the root password to enter single user
> > mode, but then wouldn't take the one I'd specified.
> >
>
> How was liloconfig ran, simple/AUTOMATIC(no say so in the matter) or
> expert(full control and not that hard at all)
>
I ran liloconfig in expert mode and installed to the superblock of hdb1.

>
> Any way, you get the idea? I would just rip out these partitions and
> start over(practice makes perfect, eventually.

I did it over, installing only A and AP to save time, and it worked
fine. Either I screwed up the first time, or it was just a glitch.
Then I added the other sets and it still worked, so I'm happy. Now I
just have to get X and dialup working and I'll be set to go.

BTW, I tried KDE and it was extremely slow in my old equipment (233mhz).
I thought I'd try Gnome just to see how slow it was. You don't seem to
like it. Any reasons?

P.S. I'm not a Linux novice, I tried it first when Slackware was at
0.97 (or 0.79, who remembers). I used it for several years to develop
and test programs for a customer running SCO Unix. But I stopped using
it about 10 years ago and am amazed at how much I've forgotten. Of
course, at my age, I'm amazed at how much I've forgotten about
everything :-).

Thanks for the advice.

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