From: phillip@seq.uncwil.edu (Alvin P. Phillips) Subject: Re: Installing SLS...How??? Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:14:46 GMT
chris@cosmo.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk (Chris Payne) writes:
>Hello Linux users,
>Thanks to those people who answered some of my questions regarding swap
>files and funny VGA behaviour. I decided yesterday to download the latest SLS
>packages, since my others were of various versions and didn't get along too
>well with each other. Now I have yet another problem:
>Although I am sure the SLS package is great, the documentation does appear to
>be lacking some vital information on _exactly_ what to do to get the install
>process started. Here is what I have done so far....
>1. Download a1.z and a2.z (98pl5)
>2. uncompress a1.z and rawrite the resulting file to a floppy. This is the
> boot floppy. This boots OK. However, the installation software asks you
> to insert the 'utilities' disk. What is this?
>3. Since a2.z is 1.1Mb there is no point uncompressing it since it won't go
> on a floppy. I rawrite the file a2.z to a floppy and assume this is the
> 'utilities' disk. When I tell the install program that I have inserted it
> it bombs out with...
> "MINIX-fs magic match failed"
> "mount: /dev/fd0h1200 already mounted or /user busy"
>
> Then I get a few more messages and a # prompt. I can't do anything at the
> prompt since there are no executables available. End of story.
>O.K. So why do I get this? Where are the _REAL_ instructions?
>By the way, I've read the FAQs and every document I can get my hands on. None
>of them really tell you what to do.
>Some help please???
>Cheers!
>Chris.
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>@ Home. I should be in bed by now!
Well for starters, A2 should not be compressed.
a1 is compressed, but if you uncompress it, it should be
the same size as a2 like 1.2 MB. (At least it was for pl1.)
rawrite both files (uncompressed) to the disks.
The "utilities" disk is indeed A2 as you suspected.
after these both boot, then you can do an fdisk
mkfs, and then finally a doinstall /dev/hd??
hope this helps.
later,
Alvin...
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