sorry, don't mean to double-post, but i accidentally buried this on in a
previous unrelated thread:

okay - here's an odd one - I tried to boot from the second CD to see if
that would work and the loadlin command had a parameter that struck me
as interesting...

ramdisk_size=16384

that was the only thing that was really different about booting from the
CD so i tried inserting that into the prevously stated command and
voila! it worked... up until the login screen.

here, it says:

Welcome to Linux 2.4.22 (tty1)

(none) login:


no matter what I type, all that I get is that prompt again, in it's
entirety.

any thoughts? am I just too new to Linux to know what to do here? I
thought if i typed root, it would ask for a password which i could
either leave blank or type 'null' or something. but no, it just doesn't
like anything.

thoughts?

if this is another thing that can be easily solved, i apologize... I
know how easy it is to find answers if you know where to look - i guess
i just don't know.


thanks guys/girls,


chip