From: joe@apache.dtcc.edu (Joe Brown) Subject: Re: Newest SLS Help! Date: 8 Aug 1993 12:35:48 -0400
In article <2433u1$4ti@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> you write:
>1) It didn't run the doinstall script with the correct arguments. IE. It tried
>to install the entire thing in /dev/hda1 which wasn't where I had set things
>up to run from fdisk. I had created a 7Mb partition for / and a 72Mb for /usr
>but this was lost in the new install program.
7Mb isn't enough disk space for the root partition. I think it has to
be greater than 10. My root is 10, it seemed to be adiquate before
installing X, but I had to make provisions after installing X, to get
everything to fit.
Did you do a "doinstall /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /usr"?
I did it that way, and my /etc/fstab looked like:
/dev/hda1 /root ext2 defaults
/dev/hda2 /root/usr ext2 defaults
When it booted, my second partition wasn't mounted, /root/usr didn't
exist. Try editing fstab, and removing the /root for root, just leave
a single ``/'', and you man need to add the swap entry as well.
/dev/hda3 none swap
and if you want proc, add
/proc /proc proc
you'll also have to mkdir /proc (I believe).
>2) The install script just plowed into asking about IP addresses and such. I
>don't have any kind of network connection for my machine and it didn't like
>that fact. It wanted me to be connected somewhere and I had to just hit
>returns and accept the default entries because I didn't have the first clue
>what it was asking for. Aparently, the default entries are insufficient to
>set things up correctly as I can't get it to boot up.
hmm... Not sure, but you might want to edit the rc &/or rc.local, and
remove references to network stuff.
>4) When it tries to boot from the hard disk, all it will do is print LI
>instead of LILO. It hangs up after that. If anyone knows where I can find
>out what the heck it thinks it's doing, please let me know.
I had to run fdisk, mark my partition active, and also I think it was
necesary to run /etc/lilo/install, after editing /etc/lilo/config.
Worked fine after that.
I still havn't quit mastered LILO, so you're gonna have to rely on
someone else for any specifics about that. Oh, ROOTDEV and BOOTDEV
(sp?) have to be changed to /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda accordingly, *I*
*THINK*.
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