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- From: mliggett@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Mister Wizard)
- Subject: [HELP!] SLS install problems
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- Organization: Indiana University
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:53:24 GMT
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- I have shrunk my DOS partition and added a Linux/minix part
- and a linux swap part.
- i set up the linux swap part to start right after
- the DOS part (part 1; /dev/hda1)... it is named /dev/hda3
- and i configured it as size +4M...
- i assumed this would give me 4096K, but the size is listed as 4169+
- i can only assume that sizes are not listed in Kbytes
-
- Q1. What does it mean when the size is followed by a '+'?
- Q2. What is the significance of the "Warning: partition X has an odd
- number of sectors." message?
-
- The size of the Linux partition is listed as 47124 (I just made it
- equal to the rest of the drive).
-
- Q3. What should I type to make a swap? (I have 2M RAM)
- I figured it should either be "mkswap /dev/hda3 4096"
- or "mkswap /dev/hda3 4169"
- or maybe even "mkswap /dev/hda3 4169+".
- Q4. What should I use as the size argument for mkfs?
- I figured "mkfs /dev/hda2 47124".
-
- Okay, so I did all of those things (I used 4096 for mkswap).
- Then I typed "doinstall /dev/hda2"
- It asked for disk a2 in the floppy drive and it was already there
- so I pressed return.
- It said "Installing bin4..."
- I don't know how long this is supposed to take, but it sat there for
- five minutes with the display unchanged.
- The floppy drive whirred at the beginning but not after.
- The HDD activity light blink fairly rythmically.
- It sounded like the HD was spinning but that was all (no click click
- of the heads moving back and forth).
-
- Q5. The SLS README doesn't seem to say this, but do I have to reboot
- again after I "mkfs /dev/hda2"?
-
- BTW: I forgot to mention it, but I _did_ type "swapon /dev/hda3" before
- I started the "doinstall".
-
-
-
- tnx to anyone who takes the time to help me.
-
-
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