From: agbt@ic.ac.uk (Arrigo Triulzi) Subject: Problems with SLS on laptop Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 17:29:21 GMT
After the overwhelming reply to my previous posting, I have downloaded the
26 disks of SLS (from my local hosts which is a tsx-11 mirror, in less
than 5 mins I had all the files :-) and started installing it on my "old"
386SL-20 laptop (6+60Mbytes & Cyrix 387). Then the problems started: When
I run fdisk to create two partitions, an 8Mbyte /dev/hda3 for swap, a
30000 blocks /dev/hda1 and the remaining in an ext. partn /dev/hda2,
start the swapping without problems, then run doinstall... it refuses to
run on /dev/hda1, asking me if I had set mkfs to the correct blocksize
(which I had, mkfs /dev/hda1 30000) and dies. I can doinstall on
/dev/hda2, the extended partition, though. I am puzzled by this.
I wanted to create only three partitions: root filesys, /usr and swap,
just in case you were wondering why I did the above. I read through all
the SLS docs I downloaded and couldn't find an explanation. It is worth
noting that I do not wish to have DOS on the machine, I would like Linux
only and, possibly, also boot from it directly without boot disk (I
believe using lilo).
Can anyone offer an explanation?
Thanks,
Arrigo
P.S. e-mail replies please as my news machine is dodgy.
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