njs12345
02-18-2003, 06:47 PM
Firstly, I realise this is not a Linux board, but this is the only place I have...
I decided to try Linux Red Hat after hearing that it was good. I wanted to dualboot with XP Home, but had read some advice suggesting that if you wanted to keep the data currently on your hard drive, you needed some partition software. So I got PartitionMagic 8.0 and made a 5 gig partition on my 40 gig hard drive, then started installing Linux.
I went through as usual, the installation said that the partition "was aligned wrongly" or something like that, but I tried to install anyway. It stopped on a file that was 204KB and was taking 30 minutes to install this one file, so I decided it wasn't working. I turned my PC off and back on again, and now I get this strange "L 99" error on starting up. It appears to read my CD-RW drive and then adds another 99 on the end so my pc screen looks like this:
L 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99...
I decided to try Linux Red Hat after hearing that it was good. I wanted to dualboot with XP Home, but had read some advice suggesting that if you wanted to keep the data currently on your hard drive, you needed some partition software. So I got PartitionMagic 8.0 and made a 5 gig partition on my 40 gig hard drive, then started installing Linux.
I went through as usual, the installation said that the partition "was aligned wrongly" or something like that, but I tried to install anyway. It stopped on a file that was 204KB and was taking 30 minutes to install this one file, so I decided it wasn't working. I turned my PC off and back on again, and now I get this strange "L 99" error on starting up. It appears to read my CD-RW drive and then adds another 99 on the end so my pc screen looks like this:
L 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99...