From: vzandy@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Victor Zandy) Subject: SLS problems with doinstall Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:31:24 GMT
I have the complete SLS package on MS-DOS formatted floppies. The
boot and utilities disks work fine, but we've been unable to get the
install script to work.
I have a 5.25 A drive and 3.5 B drive. All of the SLS packages are on
3.5 floppies. I boot from drive A. It tells me to take out the boot
disk, replace it with the utilites disk, and THEN choose the drive and
format the SLS disks are to be installed from. This seems confusing
to me, since the drive that I want the utilities disk in should not
necessarily be the drive from which the SLS installation should be
done -- or should it? In any case, when I choose the drive number to
do the installation from, that number is also used to indicate the
drive that the utilities disk is in. So I *cannot* use my A: for
booting and utilities, while using B: for installation disks.
Furthermore, after we seemed to get things going successfully and were
asked to insert disk a3, it only read for one second, and then gave us
the following error message:
MINIX-fs magic match failed
[MS-DOS FS Rel, alpha.8, FAT 12, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=-, umask=000]
[me=0xf0,cs=1,#f=2,fs=1,fl=9,ds=19,de=224,data=33,se=2880,ts=0]
We get the same error message when we try "mount -t msdos
/dev/fd1 /mnt", whenever one of the SLS DOS-formatted disks is in that
floppy drive. Is something wrong with reading MS-DOS formatted disks?
I have heard of other people getting one or two-second reads on the
SLS disks, with no information actually transferred, and then being
prompted for the next disk. I actually did this through the entire
distribution, but nothing was actually installed, except for disk a2,
which is a Linux-formatted disk.
Any ideas? Any help would be appreciated...
-vic zandy