From: trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell) Subject: SLS installation on Adaptec 1542? Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 02:48:50 GMT
Has anyone successfully installed SLS on an Adaptec 1542 SCSI system?
I have one, and since I've had my system for awhile now and files are all
over the place, I thought I'd try an SLS installation and see how it came
out.
I'd like to keep my existing partitions and just write over them,
since the rest of the disk has an SCO Unix volume that's a royal pain to
backup and restore.
Well, the boot disk comes up, and sees the controller and both disks,
but when I try to mount /dev/sdb5 with -t ext, I get read errors and it
dies.
I should say that my setup is all-extended filesystems on an extended
partition, but I thought that 0.96c worked with that.
If nothing else, I've been trying to figure out how SLS does that
boot-time ramdisk load from the boot disk so I can use my own 0.97pl2 kernel.
Peter, since I can't seem to mail you, any chance I can get some info?
I looked at the kernel source included in the dist and didn't see anything
related to the RamImage file it came with.
adTHANKSvance for any help anyone can offer.