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

ts <Use-Author-Address-Header@[> wrote:
>
> Hope you could help me through your real experiences with vector 4.0& live.
>

I doubt you will find many people who use Vector Linux here on the Slackware
newsgroup.

It would help if your post wasn't so confusing and hard to follow.

Maybe you should go to the Vector Linux forums?

- Kurt