From: OSYSMAS@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Michael Stein) Subject: help: SLS 1.03 (tsx-11 a1.5 backlevel? + others) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 10:56
(All in reference to SLS 1.03 from tsx-11.mit.edu)
-- comment: I'm not an experienced unix person, however I did
install a previous SLS from tsx-11.mit.edu (all except for X)
on this same system.
1. The a1.5 disk on tsx-11.mit.edu appears backlevel, it says:
Linux version 0.99.pl9-6 root@softland 07/01/93
(after opening machine and changing cables - Yuck) the a1.3
disk says:
Linux version 0.99.11 root@softland.softlanding.com)#3
sat jul 24
2. "sysinstall -mini" results in errors like:
//install/disks/diska2: no such file or directory
3. "sysinstall -instroot /root - mini" results in:
/root/install/catalog/diska2: no such file or directory
this is even with a hard disk partition mounted on /root
I can create files or directories in /root or even
run a gzip / tar pipe from floppy a2 and stuff shows up,
(after mounting both /dev/fd0 and /dev/hda3) so something
appears broken with sysinstall.
4. "doinstall" fails due to a problem with mke2fs. This
problem with mke2fs is the only one which also showed
up with the previous SLS. Running mke2fs with the full
block count on my /dev/hda3 results in:
mke2fs: unable to find a block for the inode table
mke2fs failed
my disk is a LXT340A (IDE, 16 heads, 63 sectors, 654 cyl):
my linux partition is /dev/hda3:
(following info from Linux fdisk):
cyl start: 351 351 cyl end: 594 blocks: 122976
AF hd sec cyl hd sec cyl start size id
00 0 1 350 15 63 593 352800 245952 82
This problem existed before SLS 1.03, then I just
ran mke2fs with 122000 blocks and that seems to avoid
the error. I can still avoid this problem this way
but wanted to report the problem...