Continuing from last night’s humiliating defeat….

I booted from the floppy this morning and rooted around, so to speak, just to see what I could see. It seems like something is installed on the hard drive, but I can’t tell if the kernel is.

What I used to know of unix is coming back to me. It’s just like riding a bicycle: if you don’t do it for a long enough period, you get too stupid, fat and old to be able to do it again.

I’m reinstalling now, using the “noprobe” parameter, although I think the problem is in my hw. Sigh. I’m telling the RedHat installer to install only the GUI desktop packages, hoping to get through an install without something blowing up…

It got through the installation but now warns me that no kernel packages were installed on my system so my boot loader won’t be updated. I don’t know if that means that no new kernel packages were loaded or that I’m truly a boy without a kernel. I guess I’ll find out in a minute when I reboot.

Nope. Booting from the hard drive still causes the system to hang: black screen with a flashing underscore cursor. I’ve got to go. I’ll try again later…

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