From: sdj@acpub.duke.edu (SCOTT JOHNSON) Subject: Installation Quirks Date: 28 Oct 1992 20:59:14 GMT
Last night I installed Linux 0.98 on my computer. Everything eventually
worked great, but I had several false starts with my partition table. I had
my partition table set up as follows:
/dev/hda1 DOS 60M
/dev/hda2 Linux Swap 4M
/dev/hda3 Linux 55M
And I ran mkfs and mkswap appropriately. When I went to run doinstall,
however, (using the standard filenames -- not efs), I was asked to insert
disk a3. When I did, it repeated the command three times before giving up
(never actually reading the drive to check each time), then went directly to
the end of the installation (asking if I had a 387/486DX) and said it made
the boot disk. Nothing however, was installed and the boot disk was not
actually made. I then changed the partition table to just be a single Linux
partition on /dev/hda2, and it worked fine. Was this a problem with the
system or me? (My apologies if this is on a FAQ, I looked but couldn't find
it).
Also, where is the current source for the system, and is there a FAQ
for upgrading to patch level 3?
Thanks much!!
--Scott "newbie but getting there" Johnson
sdj@acpub.duke.edu