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- From: bodmer@cbnewse.cb.att.com (peter.e.bodmer)
- Subject: Problems with SLS installation
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 07:11:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.071118.6707@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: SLS bogus
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- I recently made ftp'd the SLS linux distribution from tsx-11.
- The SLS documentation says that you can install a mini system by
- using disks 1-4 (out of 15). All of the disks except the first
- two are supposed to be DOS formatted floppies, so when I set up
- the distribution, I used rawrite to write images to the first two
- floppies and then wrote the files for disks 3 and 4 to DOS
- floppies. So far so good. I booted the system on the first
- floppy, and after linix came up, I installed the second floppy
- when I was prompted to do so. I partitioned the disk using the
- supplied linux fdisk, and used mkfs to create a 10 MB partition
- on /dev/hdb1 and a 30 MB partition on /dev/hdb2. I then ran the
- doinstall script as per instructions. The script prompts the
- user to insert disk 3, and then promptly bombs out when it tries
- to mount disk 3. Remember that disk 3 is dos formatted. Looking
- at script, it became apparent that it was expecting a linux
- formatted disk 3 (what gives?). So I created one, copied the
- files to it, and tried the installation again. This makes the
- install script happy, until it gets to the point where it
- attempts to extract files from base.taz on disk 3 using the tar
- utility. I'm not sure what the problem with tar is, but I seem
- to remember that tar bombs out with large files. So I replaced
- tar with the version from tsx-11 in the binaries/usr.bin
- directory, dated April 14th. This tar also bombs with a
- protection error and a message about the death of a child
- process. To make sure that I wasn't running out of memory, I
- created a 10 MB swap partition on /dev/hdb1 and activated it.
- Still dies. Anyone know what's going on here?
-
- A few months ago I successfully installed 0.95 on my hard disk
- using the standard distribution in a few hours. I'm not sure,
- but it seems like I have already spent more time with SLS, and
- I'm not sure it's worth any additional effort.
-
- I became interested in SLS because I thought it would be an easy
- way to set up a linux system and be flexible in allowing me to
- add additional packages. The SLS system "takes the hassle out of
- collecting and setting up a system" .... NOT!!!
-
- Pete Bodmer
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- bodmer@ihlpb.att.com
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