Re: Can't type fast!!

["Liton" <leyton@example.com>]

Jonathan Q wrote:

> As Austin mentions, be patient here.  It will likely finish eventually.
> BTW, what version of Linux is this?  In the beta versions leading
> to RH 7.1, I found that if I had a crash, fsck could take
> all night, even on a 10,000 RPM Ultra 160 IBM disk.  Mercifully,
> they fixed this in 7.1 release.

Mine is RH7 .

> If I were you, I'd avoid sndconfig until I found out why this
> was happening.  Not being able to play MP3s on Linux ain't
> the end of the world.  Other than that, a computer should
> be seen and not heard anyway :-)

Yes, I agree. My stereo gives me better sound.

 > Put the Red Hat install CD in your CDROM drive, boot.
> At the boot prompt, type rescue.  As I recall, it says this
> write on the boot prompt screen of the installer, near the bottom.
> That drops you into a rescue mode.  I forget where it mounts
> your file systems offhand, but it does make them available.

When I install linux from the cdrom I need to type "linux ide2=0x180,0x386"
at the boot prompt. Do I have to type anything before I type "rescue"? Thank
you.

Liton