On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Capt. Avram Dorfman wrote:

> I tried installing RedHat Linux/X86 on Virtual PC. It *almost* worked. 
> During installation, the only glitch was the install screen wigging out 
> for a few minutes. The when I booted it, it got the login prompt ok, 
> but when I tried to login as root, it said "login login login login" 
> and then asked me to login again. I was never able to get into it, 
> although I could get up in single user mode.

That sounds familiar, though I'm not sure why.  Maybe something similar
under MkLinux or something....  Weird.  Did you try single-user?  Any
better luck?  Just curious.

> Warning: VirtualPC does *NOT* like to have two different "C:" drives. 
> Maybe there's a patch, but the basic VPC install crashes when you try 
> to switch between existing C: drives. I lost my whole win95 install, 
> and had to resintall from scratch.

Thanks for the warning.  :-)


David

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