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- From: sundaram@cps.msu.edu (Divya Sundaram)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: HELP: SLS distribution install fails with bad magic number.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.013009.3979@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 01:30:09 GMT
- Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Michigan State University, College of Engineering
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- Originator: sundaram@indian.cps.msu.edu
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- Hey y'all,
-
- I am installing linux on my machine for the first time and am Using the SLS
- distribution. I am getting a bad magic number problem on the 1st install
- disk.
-
- Where can I get more info on the SLS distribution? I know next to nothing about
- linux and its installation and am not sure how to go about doing this. I deleted
- my Boot manager and DOS partition. Doinstall tells me to do a mkfs first. Which
- wants me to do a fdisk first.
-
- Where do I get the mkfs? And where can I find the fdisk for linux, if any?
-
- Now the fdisk will not allow me to delete the OS2 "Ext DOS Partition" - this
- is the DOS fdisk. Is there a linux fdisk?
-
- Any info would be greatly appreciated!
-
- Thanks,
- Divya
- (sundaram@cps.msu.edu)
-