From: ljarvie@nyx.cs.du.edu (Lee Jarvie) Subject: Another Beginner Installation Question... Date: 8 Oct 1992 16:04:15 GMT
Hi there.
I have recently received Linux and have had success in running it via a
floppy. I also received the instalation.notes file mirrored at
wuarchive.wustl.edu. I followed this documentation as closely as possible
while installing with bootimage.98 and rootimage.97. I repartioned my
harddrive to include the following:
/dev/hda1 DOS 16bit <32M
/dev/hda2 Linux/Minix
/dev/hda3 Extended
/dev/hda5 Linux/Minix
/dev/hda6 DOS 16bit <32M
/dev/hda7 Linux Swapping
This all went fine and Linux recognized all of the new partions. I ran
the installation script, ran mkfs on hda2 and hda5 and ran mkswap on
hda7 and everything worked fine (no errors).
Finally, I designated /dev/hda2 as my root directory,
/dev/hda5 as my user directory and
/dev/hda7 as my swapping directory (excuse me,
partition is more appropriate)
This worked fine. The script went on to mount the root and user
partitions okay, but from there, everything fell apart. As it tried to
move binaries to my harddrive and mount them, I got MANY of the following
errors.
Unable to create symbolic link: No space on device (or at least something
close to that) or
Unable to create directory: No space on device.
There main operative here seems to be the lack of space on the device
since this showed up in every error message.
Finally, I left the install script and tried to mount the partitions using
'mount /dev/hda2 /mnt' as shown in the installation.notes file. This
gives a segmentation fault: core dumped error.
I'm not sure if this question has come up, but I've been through all the
documentation I can find, and I can't find this. Please give me some
pointers if possible and I apologize if I am either doing something
incredibly stupid or if this has already been over-discussed.
Thanks for any help,
Lee