From: ptrouton@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Trouton) Subject: Help with first install Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 08:55:32 GMT
Please help.
I installed SLS 1.03 version linux on my machine last night, but I have a few problems. My machine is as follows.
486/33 AMI
8MB Ram
340MB Western Digital IDE drive currently on ISA bus
ET4000 Local bus display card
Sound Blaster Pro
I partitioned the drive
C: 20 MB dos Boot
extended partition
hda3 Linux 120MB active *
hda4 Linux 16MB swap
D: 180MB dos
I then installed LILO sucessfully and made C: inactive.
My system boots correctly and loads in to root ok.
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On bootup I get the following messages, ('icrus' is my hosts name)
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.Could someone please describe the format of these messages SIOC<text>
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/etc/rc.net: icrus(2112)SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid Arguement
SIOCGIFFLAGS: Invalid Arguement
SIOCGIFFLAGS: Invalid Arguement
SIOCGIFFLAGS: Invalid Arguement
SIOCGIFFLAGS: Invalid Arguement
SIOCSIFNETMASK: Invalid Arguement
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreadable
, portmap, inetd, named.Sep 9 23:52:58 named [40]:restarted
.Sep 9 23:52:58 [40]: named.hosts: no SOA record.
.Sep 9 23:52:58 [40]: named.local: no SOA record.
.Sep 9 23:52:58 [40]: /etc/named.boot: line11: bad flaf 'icrus.2112'
.Sep 9 23:52:58 init[1]: Entering runlevel: 6
.Sep 9 23:52:58 icrus sysloged: /var/log/notice: no such file or directory
I am presently only a standalone computer, and I know that these messages are in
response to the kernal not being able to setup the host, but what should I do to correct this, I dont want to do any damage. I also think that to get rid of the last error message I should create the /var/log/notice directory and file, however what
is this used for and again is it ok to do this. I am unsure.
Also ....
So far I have installed as far as C3, at which point the SLS installation requested the blank formatted disk to be inserted for bootup. I did this and after I have fiddled around a while with the system, I wanted to continue to install the rest of the complete sls install, namely disks Dx, Tx, Sx and Xx.
I used the command
sysinstall -series D (for installing the D series of disks.
The prog then requested that I place D1 in floppy disk and press return
I did so but the program did not attempt to read from fd0, it just requested the same message again. After three <return>'s the sysinstall prog fell back into linux.
NOW... I can mount the fd0 floppy disk, and read from it, so I mounted the floppy disk with D1 in it and tried the sysinstall again, but it still did not work.
I also used the sysinstall -mount command to no effect
WHY and again can you help.
Lastly...
How do I setup myself as a new user, because I do not wish to keep using root. I looked at the command useradd but the man pages were pretty unhelpful and there is no info on the FAQ's or the install guide for linux.