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- From: ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: sls install questions
- Message-ID: <78529@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 21:27:23 GMT
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Lines: 38
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- I have to questions. First some beginings
- I have the Gateway 2000 66mhz/486dx2 with 325 meg ide hdd and 8meg ram.
- 15" crystal scan monitor and telepath modem
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- I downloaded the a,b,c and x sls disks today and put them on floppies.
- I had allready installed the base linux system(disks a only) and
- everything was working. I went to install the remainder using sysinstall and
- the menu system but I was unable to get linux to use my b drive instead of my
- a: drive. Drive b is 31/2" a is 51/4 ". Due to this
- I repartitioned my hard drive and went the long way around to completely
- reinsall linux. I did the doinstall /dev/hda3 and it prompted my for
- my disks.
- the installation od the A disks went fine when it said to insert disk b1
- I did and hit return. This is the error message I got:
- <file name> ...tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file
- tar: child died with signal 11(core dumped)
- it said the same thing for all files on b1 then said
- unmount /dev/fd1h1440 Device busy or missing
-
- I am confused> icannot find any reason for this.
- I downloaded disks a1-a4 to my pc directly from my school unix account but
- I used mtools on a sun sparc to copy b,c,and x to floppies. Could this be the
- trouble? Do I need to transfer to my pc then to my floppies? Oh. I also
- formatted those b,c and x flopies usinf fdformat on a sun.,.
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- How can I install from b: drive after I have just installed minimal system
- and switched to the menus by booting from floppy and using ard drive?
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- Please help
-
- Ed Boykin
- ccasted@prism.gatech.edu
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- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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