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- Russell;
-
- Well, I do seem to be getting somewhere :-)
-
- The latest kernel certainly picks up all the partitions on the IDEFS
- system. The
- partition check shows hdd1, hdd2, hdd3 and hdd4.
-
- When I mknod the devices I can mount an adfs partition and, after
- having created
- an ext2 partition on one of the IDEFS partitions further up the disc, I
- can
- mount that in the alternate shell on tty2 (ALT-F2). Having created a
- large Unix
- tar file (using Frank Lancaster's tar port) from the Clan CD X-file I
- can then
- copy the RPMs from the tar file on the adfs partition to the ext2
- partition.
-
- However, at this point it all seems to break down.
-
- Going back into the RedHat Installer leaves me with only hdd and hdc as
- the
- discs that I can select for anything. It complains that I haven't
- created a swap
- partition - which of course I haven't because I don't know of any way
- of
- creating one until a new version of Partman appears.
-
- If I decide to ignore this and carry on anyhow, when I get to the point
- of
- finding the installation files it decides to go off and reboot the
- system. At
- which point the installation screen shows "Rebooting system", but
- nothing
- further happens. The shell is still working on ALT-F2, but nothing
- works from
- the installer.
-
- Any ideas?
-
- All help gratefully accepted :-)
-
- As an incentive, I must point out that my first aim when I finally get
- this
- system to run is to get the GIMP installed and running on it :-)
-
- JDL
-
- P.S. You seem to be quite correct about the behaviour of IDEFS with a
- non-filecore partition. I get a single disc access about once a second
- within
- RiscOS.
-
- --
- John Lagrue
-
-