From: eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) Subject: Re: SLS Newbie Installation Problem/Question Date: 13 Feb 1993 23:01:45 GMT
In article <1ljpds$ko1@venus.haverford.edu> eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) writes:
>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.)
Well, after a couple of encouraging messages that I wasn't doing
anything wrong, I downloaded the disk images again from tsx-11, to no
avail, I get to the same place described above and then nothing
happens...
Sigh!
HELP!
-Erik