From: eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) Subject: SLS Newbie Installation Problem/Question Date: 13 Feb 1993 21:32:44 GMT
I just got a color 486 laptop and I am planning to use UN*X on it, I
thought I would look into Linux, so I downloaded the SLS A1 - A4
distribution disks from tsx-11.mit.edu. I rawrote disks A1 and A2 and
copied the other disks with dos.
When I boot with the A1 SLS disk, the machine boots byt it never prompts
me for the A2 disk. During the boot process, it correctly identifies
my parititions, installs the virutal consoles, lp_init, Serial Driver
v3.8, it finds no SCSI devices, reports all 8Mb of RAM available,
recognizes my floppy drive correctly, initializes two sets of socket
families (1 and 2), issues a warniong because WD8013 board is not found
at i/o 280, shows my HD partition table. Builds a RAM disk, loads
655360 bytes into the ram disk, prints done. and then:
Linux version 0.99.pl4-62 (root@softland) 01/23/93 05:56:39
And leaves me there with a blinking cursor. The SLS install manual
loosely refers to mounting the root paritition from A2, so I took out
the A1 disk and inserted A2. I tried typing mount, to no avail.
Two questions:
(1) Does it seem like my A1 SLS Boot disk is working correctly?
(2) What am I not doing, e.g. what do I do to move to the
parititioning the harddisk step?
Thanks.
-Erik
(followups to me eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu or the group as you feel
is most appropriate.)