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- From: vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: HELP: SLS distribution install fails with bad magic number.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.001542.20626@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 00:15:42 GMT
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- sundaram@cps.msu.edu (Divya Sundaram) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- the first two disks in SLS are linux 'images' (basically looked like a 0.96c
- boot disk and a modified 'root' disk to me).
-
- you stick disk 1 in there and boot the PC. when it asks you to stick in the
- 'root' disk, put disk2 in there and follow the instructions.
-
- >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.
-
- I personally used 'mcc-interim' to install the basic o/s and utilities.
- SLS's value to me would be that it packages stuff in such a way that I can
- cd to /, then extract a tar file and load a complete package if I choose to
- grab it. I didn't care for the menus myself, but they DID seem to work.
- (I like the command line interface rather than canned install thingy's that
- I have to trust)...still, it seemed pretty much as advertised IMHO, but
- I'd agree there's a need for some type of documentation that is SLS-specific.
-
- anyway, I did the following:
- - from DOS, partitioned 70% of the disk for DOS5.0
- - booted linux from the mcc-interim distribution, and set up
- the rest the way I wanted for linux. SLS seems to have
- similar ability to walk you through getting the initial o/s
- loaded relatively painlessly.
-
- >Where do I get the mkfs? And where can I find the fdisk for linux, if any?
-
- it's on the disk1 I believe. If you boot off the disk1, it'll be there
- when it tells you to set up the hard disk.
-
- >Now the fdisk will not allow me to delete the OS2 "Ext DOS Partition" - this
- >is the DOS fdisk. Is there a linux fdisk?
-
- you use the DOS fdisk with DOS, and the linux fdisk for linux partitions.
-
- >Any info would be greatly appreciated!
-
- you need to find the FAQs. Take a peek via anon-ftp on tsx-11.mit.edu
- if you have internet access.
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