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- From: pmacdona@tadpole.bcsc.gov.bc.ca (Owner of this machine)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: RE: SLS problems
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.184937.1480@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 18:49:37 GMT
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Reply-To: pmacdona@tadpole.bcsc.gov.bc.ca
- Organization: The Internet
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- This is in reply to Peter B?, who had problem installing SLS.
- My mailer is broken...
-
- Given that dozens of people have managed to install the SLS from
- downloaded sources, don't you think that it is possible that if
- it doesn't work for you, that you might be doing something wrong?
-
- I will give you credit, however, for being resourcefull enough to
- look at the install script to try to determine the problem. And if
- you had been reading the posts, you would know that the SLS kernel
- was modified to try mounting all 3 types of FS's, when none is
- specified by the command. That is the reason you see the bad magic
- match command upon the mount attempt. The first one tried is "minix"
- then "ext" then "msdos". Unfortunately, Linus never adopted this patch
- when I sent it to him. So my first question is, are you sure the mount
- actually failed? If so, then perhaps your boot-disk is corrupt?
-
- Really, I can understand your frustrations. Computers are complex, and
- even simple functions like downloading files, seems error prone. But
- SLS is free, and it offers you the greatest freedom of all. Namely,
- you are free not to use it, if it puts your bun in such a knot.
-
- Other things to note:
- doinstall will not work with "ext" fs on the harddrive.
- the files "disk*" must also be downloaded.
- you log in as "root" after the install.
- you can also login as "user1" to see startx use GWM.
-