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- From: hare@vogon (Hannes)
- Subject: Re: SLS problems with doinstall
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.104510.9105@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
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- Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
- References: <VZANDY.93Jan21003124@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 10:45:10 GMT
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- vzandy@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Victor Zandy) writes:
- : 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]
-
- << deleted stuff >>
-
- :
- : Any ideas? Any help would be appreciated...
- :
- : -vic zandy
-
- To the first problem: Just ignore it. It doesn't make any difference if you're
- installing from drive B: whether there is a disk in drive A: or not.( In fact,
- it's making life more easy in the totally unprobable case of sudden reboot ).
- Second: try to get a DOS-tar utility. Make a tar-archive with the files from
- disk A3 and A4 on disks ( e.g. "> tar cvf B: a3\*.*" if all the files from disk
- A3 are in the sub-dir a3 ). Linux can read these disks with his own tar; so all
- you have to do now is mount the hd by hand, type a "cd /root", umount the
- floppy (/user), and type "tar xvf /dev/fd1H1440". tar should extract all the
- files onto the hd. Now you can mount the floppy (otherwise you didn't have a
- ls). You'll have to install the .tpz files (e.g "cat <file>.tpz
- |gzip -cd|tar xvpf -") and then follow the steps in the "/bin/doinstall"-script
- after the "sysinstall" - command. At the end you should be able to boot Linux
- off the floppy.
- I know, this is quite a 'removing the symptom, but not the cause' help, but I
- didn't invent SLS.
-
- me pleasure
-
- Hannes | "Hare Krishna, Hare Rama,
- hare@vogon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de | nix mehr Butter, nur mehr Rama" (EAV)
-